Boy, oh, boy, oh boy! Now, could you possibly picture Brian Sandoval or Wazzisname from North Las Vegas--you know, the guy who signed over a $337,000 golden parachute to the city manager up there, you know, the guy against government [...]
Looks like a tough Thanksgiving for Nevada charities this year, so you all might want to send a contribution in to your favorite charity. (KLAS)
Help the Three Square foodbank folk get more turkeys.
Give to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
Or to the [...] Steve Miller, over at AmeicaMafia.com, has an interesting article about the governor's attempt--or lack thereof--to crack down on that beloved Vegas tradition, the "doorman scam." The "doorman scam" is the practice at local casinos wherein doormen give special favors to taxi drivers [...]
Oh, please, Mr. Guberner, give us hope in these trying times!
But, saith the Gibbers: “I would like to tell the citizens of Nevada we have seen the worst of the economic crisis and are seeing the fruits of recovery,” But, of course, he [...]
Stand back, Nevada! Jim Gibbons is going totally Palin on your ass!
Yep. Gibbons has gone rogue over the stimulus money, and singlehandedly usurped the powers of the Legislative Interim Finance Committee by approving at least 11 projects without any Legislative oversight. ([...]
Wow! I feel like a kid in a candy store!
Just look at all those nifty candidates I get to pick from in the Nevada Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, now that I'm a Nevada Republican! ([...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!Despite the lack of press coverage (more to come this weekend, I think), the Protectors of Tule Springs, along with other coalition groups has done what everyone told me was impossible 3 years ago.
The cities of Las Vegas and North [...]
It only took the Gube a week to come up with this swift response to a Nevada Supreme Court decision to boot a Gib-appointee off the bench. Yep. To something that happened last week.
Probably slept in Monday.
[...]First they stick us with the only fellow truly worthy of the title "Republican governor," and then they run away after learning what that really means.
Abandon rule by pure market forces and the resulting slaughter-bench of all decent human [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500 S. [...]
According to Ralston's Flash, an invite to the Xmas party for the Sierra Nevada Republican Women's Club promises to award an "amazing door prize from the Governor" (Sun)
Now, my sources, ever unreliable, have discovered what that door prize will be! Here's a top-secret photo of the Governor practicing for [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION on their agendas which will read in part: This is a resolution supporting [...]
Stand back prognosticating- wannabes! Let the real master of futuristic navel-gazing tell you what will really happen in the coming year!
Chuck Muth, who hates America because he deserted the Nevada Republican Party of purists like me and my pal Jimbo Gibbons, will [...]Harry Reid's folks are circulating a press release saying that your governor Jim Gibbons is still making the same claim that the bomb attached to the Reidmobile back in mob days was only a telephone book in a shoebox:
From the release:
Even after Sue Lowden’s and Gov. [...]Read 'em and weep, Reid-Republicans! Northern New York state will predict the outcome of the Nevada primaries better than any waffling liberal prognosticators! Dede Scozzafava, forced out of a New York congressional race by a real Republican, is a sign [...]
Now that I'm an official Nevada Republican*, unlike backstabbers like Chuck Muth, I've had a complete change of perspective about all sorts of things, including humor.
Take the illustration to the right.
it is totally tasteless and not a bit funny. [...]
Now that I'm a Nevada Republican, and a true believer like my pal Jimbo in the central core of goofiness that lives inside the party like a tumor, I am deeply offended by Quitter Sandoval's lame-o campaign slogan: "A reason to believe again." [...]
Well, that certainly cleared a lot of things up! The Review-Journal, which was oddly worried in the hardcopy edition about "civility" in political discourse today--a position that so obviously contradicts the editorial policies of the paper that one could only spew one's morning [...]
Up on northern Nevada TeeVee, they're saying that Jim Gibbons remains a beacon of hope for the core true believers of the Nevada Republican party. You know, guys like me and Jimbo:
One elected Democrat who wished to [...]
It's very liberating now that I'm officially a Nevada Republican. I get to be racist, call health-care reformers granny-killers, and support the absolute right-to-life of human fetuses, by which I mean a right-to-life more absoluter than any [...]
WHAT: Rory Reid Heads to Pahrump House Party: Candidate to visit Nye County on Wednesday.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 21, at 6 p.m.
WHERE: 5561 Genoa Ave., near Route 160 and East Country Place Road
[...]
Okay, Comrades. The nonsense and idiocy has got to stop.
I mean the nonsense and idiocy that would drive nonsense and idiocy from the Nevada Republican Party. More specifically, I mean the central core of nonsense [...]
WHAT: Barbecue for Rory Reid's Gubernatorial Campaign
WHERE: Justice Myron E. Leavitt Family Park (formerly known as Jaycee Park) near Eastern and East St. Louis avenues, Las Vegas, NV.
WHEN: Sunday, October 18, 4pm. Rory Reid will have brief remarks at 5pm.
I had one of them spicy hamburgers at the Wednesday shindig, [...]
So here's Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins, expressing his excitement with the thought Clark County won't be caring for abandoned desert tortoises anymore and his hatred of all small animals getting in the [...]
Nevada governor Jim Gibbons felt it necessary to contradict his own lawyer yesterday after said lawyer, rightly concerned with the limited prospects of his client, asserted
Watch the Gøøber beg you not to hold him responsible for his record and other things "beyond his control."
Watch him say, with a straight face: "What we did was right!"
And then we learn of a strange new group of people called "TeeVee Readers." Eh, don't ask.
' [...]
That special session of the legislature that is so, so necessary for plugging up holes in the budget is pretty much a sure thing, I'm guessing, now that Jim and Dawn will going to trial over [...]
For you folks up north: Rory Reid will be kicking off his kick Gibbons out of office gube campaign at the following locales:
WHAT: Rory Reno Kickoff Event
WHERE: California Building in Idlewild Park in Reno.
WHEN: Thursday, October 15 at 5:30 p.m. A barbecue will follow.
There's media blather about event [...]
WHAT: Rory Reid officially to announce campaign for Nevada Governor
WHERE: Doris Hancock Elementary School, 1661 Lindell Road (Lindell and Oakey), Las Vegas, NV
WHEN: Wednesday, October 14 at 5:30 p.m.
Let the games begin!
[Ralston has a flyer.}
[...]Intrepid news hound Fatcat Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick has detected a change in mental state viz. the putative Nevada governor, Jim Gibbons. (RJ) The attitude shift was detected at an affair dubbed a "soiree" by Mr. Frederick, probably one of those clandestine rightwing orgies to which we hoi [...]
Ah, ain't it great when bi-partisanship works? Especially the kind where Gibbons gets out of the way and let's Barbara Buckley clean up the mess? Well, I'm sure northern Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief. Their disappointment at losing their favorite gooftard [...]
Following up on that book called "World Without Us," I was wondering, what would the World Without Gibbons be like?
For example, what would campaign finance be without the governor setting the highest standards?
The [campaign finance] disclosure laws are [...]The Gibbons' campaign site is up, and lookin' cheap and sleazy, too. I'm guessing that's the campaign's theme?
[...]So, I went on that Solar Tour thing last weekend and saw a couple of houses with people living in them who could afford to shell out $30,000 or $40,000 to put a solar panel on the roof and an [...]
One doubts Michael Mishak was able to keep a straight face describing the latest Myth, Inc., enterprise.
Chuck plans to create a "news service" wherein Chuck writes his "fair and balanced" drivel, albeit anonymously, and calls it "news". [...]
Yes, the latest John Ensign, Tom Coburn, Mike Slanker revelations are indeed amusing, but would anyone be willing to speculate why Congressperson Shelley Berkley's people are sending out a link to a Politico write up suggesting that the Senate Ethics Committee will probably [...]
Once upon a time there was a little Gøøber who was told by his Staff that an Evil Ogre called the United States of America was sending $45 million to the little Gøøber and his Kingdom to build a Magic [...]
Yep, it's Adulterer versus Wannabe-Rodeo-Sexter-Adulterer, Groper v. Groper, as John Ensign attacks the administration of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons for having too many czars.
One wonders what other possible interpretation could be put to Senator Schtup's remarks, such as:
"We are now facing a situation [...]
If North Platte, Nebraska, counts as the "media circuit," that is.
Turncoat Tierney Cahill was the teacher who challenged then US Congressional backbencher Jim Gibbons for his House seat back in two thousand [...]
Ever notice that putative Nevada governor Jim Gibbons can't do anything without getting a judge involved? Like, get divorced, grope unwilling gals in a garage, wear a napkin hat at a lovely cruise sponsored by a [...]
News that GOP Gubewannabe Brian Sandoval was the target of questions concerning ethics violations by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics no doubt fueled the false hopes of the foolish in the Nevada Repug party that maybe, just maybe, [...]
Let's see if we can sort out the "puzzling" chain of events surrounding the recent train wreck over trains:
Harry Reid secures $45 million in pork barrel spending for designing the maglev train project, and consequently forgets about it. [...]
Comrades! Exciting news from the front lines of the credit wars!
Station Casinos has joined the New Shay's Rebellion! Just look at their amazing contribution to the movement:
Station Casinos stopped making payments on its $5.7 billion debt load. (RJ)
Brave lads!
Up in Nor'Town, the bankrupt [...]
Well, one doesn't usually need toothpicks under the eyelids to get through a Pate 2 Pate, but when Dullard Sandoval McMilquetoast climbed aboard the Ralston express the other day, they would have been helpful.
He was, shall we say, dry as a judge. [...]
Buoyed by the news that Barbara Buckley won't be running agin 'im, the Gøøb continued his desperate and doomed campaign to be re-Gøøbed in 2010, as illustrated by some Gøøblets:
Governor tries to blame the continuing collapse of the doomed, overly-mortgaged boom-town, single-industry [...]Ah, there it is! Right on time.
The weekly gaffe. Just when Gibbers apologists were warming up another resurrection-fest for the doomed Gube.
The governor's very own insurance division is having an "open access" day, granting [...]
So, how's that new Stimulus Czar doing? You know, the one the Guv nearly tore down state government in order to keep under his thumb?
Well, let's have a peek at an interview the new czar had with some local teevee folk:
Hetty Chang: How much [...]
Especially from other Republicans.
So, let's see if we can figure out what happened: John Ensign, on his Please Help Me Find My Pants And My Dignity Again tour, said something about how he created John Sandoval ex nihilo from [...]
From the Protectors of Tule Springs:
Thank you, thank you to everyone who wrote or called our representatives about National Monument status for the Upper Las Vegas Wash, (Tule Springs).Click the pic to see what's on Sherm Haney's hat.
Here's some background on the faux dustup amongst the town good-old boys, in case you were doing something useful, like taking a nap, and missed it: [...]
The "Find Gibbons' Mojo" Campaign has a new ally.
The Nevada Attorney General, Catherine Cortez-Masto, seems to be playing guardian angel and point guard to the Gibbers at every turn lately.
First, she handed out the decision that the Gube can sidestep Interim [...]
This was under the radar given all the other goofiness out at the Shooting Park last week:
It was from Gov. Jim Gibbons who said, "You can have all the guns you need, but you can never have [...]And your credit rating.
Please, please, please don't buy a new house at cheap prices and walk away from your current underwater, mud-and-sticks debtor's prison, pleads the Review Journal today. (RJ)
The Journal's story is actually rather helpful, if you're considering the "buying and bailing" [...]
Okay, okay. I know most of you couldn't give a rat's patootie about North Las Vegas, and you probably agree with Nor'Town's very own County Commissioner and Bumpkin Tom Collins, to wit, all of us trailer-trash Nor'Townies should just pack up [...]
Did I say cigar? I meant weenie.
Senator Harry Reid and tons of the usual suspects were up near Nor'Town brandishing weenie surrogates and expounding their love of guns, and, if Freud's right, weenies, at a dedication for the Clark County Gun Park. (Sun)
Nothing apparently gave them pause, such [...]
The state of Nevada now knows what it feels like to go on a date with Jim Gibbons and say "no."
With some pimping from the Nevada Attorney General, Gibbons gave Nevada the full-blown Mazzeo treatment after the Interim Finance Committee initially refused to go along with his cash-for-cronyies stimulus czar [...]
This John Ensign slogan comes from up north:
Course, it attacks our patriotic whore industry, but nonetheless looks like a winner.
This one uses the Senator's own words about his "big mistake" to turn a negative into a [...]
Okay, okay. Nobody can say that the 'Monger ain't entrepreneurial.
So, here's a couple of pitches.
The first is a sequel to a 2007 sequel to a show from the 70's...
Great concept, eh? Half price, this year [...]
Question: When is an AP story not an AP story?
Answer: When it appears in the Review Journal!
There was an AP notice the other day gurgling through the Internetal tubes to the affect that the arraignment of ex-eTreppid employee/consultant Dennis Montgomery vis. skipping out on gambling debts would be postponed awhile. [...]
Ooops. Looks like Ed Vogel misreported the Gube's recent vote on the State Board of Examiners vis-a-vis Yucca Mountain Funding. The Gube didn't vote against additional funding--he merely argued it was a bad idea to vote for it--before voting for it.
Oddly, this is one case were a correction in the [...]
Bring it, dammit**! Let's do it. Let's stop the "partisan potshots" and settle some Nevada constitutional questions.
So, go ahead, senate weenies. Sue the Gube over his illegal takeover of the legislative function to tax and to appropriate state monies. That's what legislatures do, don't they?
And, go ahead, Gøøber minions. Sue [...]
My, the Gøøber had a busy day, today. Yup, marched out for his little media event wherein he announced an executive order--you'd think somebody woulda taken those away from him long ago lest he hurt somebody--allowing [...]
[UPDATE: Please read this important correction!]
Perhaps nothing provides a better example of why Jim Gibbons is such an epic fail as a governor more than the recent 'tarnedness about Yucca Mountain oozing from the Gube office.
First we see the governor [...]
Woah. If you blink, you miss those can't-be-persuaded-by-polls/written-in stone decisions by the invertebrate in chief.
Let's see, wasn't it just this last weekend that the Governor threatened to create a constitutional crisis by challenging the legality of the Legislature's Interim Finance Committee all [...]
Catch a sample of the new RJ!
If you're having trouble reading the text, click on the pic to see it a bit closer.
Okay, okay, there are no changes at the Review Journal. Just more of the craven bias that has [...]
Say, does state government these days remind anyone of a production of King Lear mounted, pardon the expression, by the Mustang Ranch Amateur Shakespearean League and Rusty Trombone Club? No?
Huh. Must just be me, I [...]
So, first we read this:
With the addition of Robin Reedy, Lynn Hettrick and Stacy Woodbury to senior staff positions in his administration, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is finally portraying an image of experience and competence. (Muth via Nevada Appeal)And then we read [...]
Doing the worst Fozzie Bear imitation ever, the Governor of Nevada decided to go after the Senate Majority Leader recently by attacking Reid Senior as soft on Yucca. How is Mr. Pushup soft on the Nuke dump, according to the Gibbermatic, you [...]
Woah. What any reasonable person with at least a sixth grade reading ability would deem a ham-handed attack on a strawman constructed from a complete misconstrual of some harmless remarks perpetrated by the most craven political hack [...]
No doubt all readers of the Review Journal--especially the Gibber 14-percenters who make up the bulk of its readership--were titillated by news that Gibbons' "accuser" Douglas Montgomery was picked up by the local constabulary for not paying gambling debts. (RJ) All in good fun, no doubt, except [...]
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is expected to continue his reign of incompetence sometime today or tomorrow as he returns from his Defibrillate the 2010 Gube Campaign by Frightening the Troops Overseas Tour.
The Gube will be returning to Nevada after a [...]
While Nevada's MavIraq in Chief is over in Basra undermining morale and holding a stupefyingly bizarre "townhall" with members of the state Guard, Gibbons lawyers continue the brave fight on the home front--to cover-up the cover-up of [...]
See Gibbons, pennyloafers on the ground, stumble through an interview of questions he's apparently prepared for ahead of time, as he uses the troops as human shields for his initial crawl into the 2010 gube race.
It's gonna be a long Gube campaign if we're gonna hafta sit through a few thousand iterations of "Gibbons the Maverick" mythology again. Old Olmer Fudd, Gibbers' campaign staffer and ski instructor, started off the season with the first [...]
All of Nevada was agog today over the prospect that the Luv Guv had pulled a Sanford and disappeared off to Argentina desperately seeking a paramour with a rape-fetish.
The Gube's true undisclosed destination, however, is probably [...]
A national publication set Nevada just slightly behind New York and its debauched state legislature to deem the silver-plated state the second most dysfunctional in the union. (NatJour)
Still, the Empire state had an unfair advantage. It has [...]
Listen to the Beale Street Blues, and then you can sing along with John.
Click the pic for a close up.
Fun Facts!
Yes, it's true. John Ensign's father-confessor who wants to claim doctor-"patient" privilege is [...]Fun quotes about your favorite Guv and the possibility of him appointing a new United States Senator:
If Senator Ensign resigns or is forced out of office, who would take his seat? According to Nevada law, an interim senator would be appointed by the governor until the 2010 general election. [...]Watch the Gibbers suck up to 10-percenters at the opening of an industrial park . The guy running the show is Lance Gilman, a brothel owner who presumably talked Jim Gibbons out of shutting down legal brothels. Gilman, surprise, surprise, gives money to Gibbons.
But, hey, it's not every [...]
Former Gube toady wazzisname has announced a bid for Townsend's term-limited seat in the Senate. (INP,Sun) Wazzisname is depicted above helping the Gube slip on the MILF-huntin' 'turtle.
He apparently has the support of some big-wig yet has-beeny Republicans who are ignoring [...]
Looks like it's time to dust off the old Gibbons' frog-march pic, again.
The Reno-Gazette Journal has moved it's suit to force the Guv to hand over e-mails written on a government computer, using government software, using a government LAN and a government Internet [...]
