The apple doesn’t rot far from the tree.

Nature or nurture, the ultimate question.  But in this case it still ends up loony.

Remember Cliven Bundy?  Rancher that owes us taxpayers over $1,000,000 in grazing fees and led an armed militia in a standoff with federal agents to protect his right to freeload on public (OUR) land?  Oh, and he also informed us that certain people were better off as slaves.

Now his son is in the news.  Angered that the Clark County Schools in Nevada would not let his daughter bring a pocket knife to school he pulled his kids out the school system and will “pursue education for his children elsewhere”.

According to him, not allowing his kids to come to school armed is a violation of their rights and evidence of administrators’ “communistic mentality”.

My question is “what kind of mentality thinks that all students need to be carrying pocket knives around school?”.

Didja hear?

President Obama and the US Congress were run out of office on Friday.  Yeah, by “10 to 30 million like-minded Americans.”

Retired Col. Harry Riley called it the Second American Revolution, where at least 10 million people descended on Washington D.C. determined to clog the city until the present administration resigned and left office.

You didn’t hear about it?  Well, of course not.

Because much like Harold Camping’s apocalyptic predictions of 1994 and May & October of 2011, this Second American Revolution was an abject failure.

Reports on Saturday had the attendance somewhere around 500.  No, no, no, not 500 million.  Just a plain and simple 500.  Half of a thousand, which is 5 hundred-thousandths of the minimum prediction.

Let’s see; 500 ÷ 10,000,000 … mmmm, move the decimal over two. Hey, that’s .005%, or 5 thousandths of a percent of the backing good ol’ Harry thought he had.

Now, much like Camping’s end of the world (hey; Harold Camping, Harry Riley. mmmmm) Riley would not admit how much of a failure his prediction was.  No, no, no.  The latest news is that this whole “Operation American Spring” was conjured up by the liberal left to make the Teabillys look bad.

Ha, like they need any help!

A victory for the reasonable.

"GOP extremists lose at their own game" - Paul Rolly, S.L.Tribune 3/25/2012

Yup, the Teabagger's reign of terror is very likely coming to a close. They lost almost a dozen delegates to the Utah Republican Party at the recent caucus.

And it seems that even the L.D.S. Church is sick and tired of them. According to Rolly, part of their defeat was due to the church encouraging their members to attend their local caucus and voice their opinion. Officials even encouraged local wards to cancel any meeting on the day of the Democratic and Republican caucus.

In the past, teabagger power came from dominating the caucus meetings, due to apathy from the general public. Because of this they could hand pick the people that would run in the election, basically giving the general public a choice between Democrat and their ultra-conservative Republican. Other than in Salt Lake City, the Republican wins regardless of how much froth is spewing from his (or rarely her) mouth. Match, set, game.

I never thought I'd ever say this, but I'm glad this means that Orrin Hatch may actually get on the ballot. Couple of years ago the teabaggers prevented Bob Bennett from even getting on the ballot, even though 72% of Utahans supported him.

Loss #2 for the Queen of the Teabaggers, Gayle Ruzicka. HB343 and now the caucuses. She must be tossing and turning all night long wondering how her "Telephone Tree of Terror" could have let her down.

Bummer.