Election time is so interesting. It’s always funny to me to drive around an notice people’s political affiliations.

Look Marge, the Johnsons have campaign posters in their yard. Such nice people, who would have thought they were democrats. Guess little Billy isn’t going to be able to go to Freddy’s birthday party after all. Thank God we found out.

What I find amusing is the way that everyone seems to support ALL of the party candidates. Sure, Angie Paccione and Bill Ritter are both decent candidates, but Solomon Little Owl? Come on. I really like when there are all of the major candidates’ posters in the yards and along with two or three candidates for school board or county commissioner that you’ve never heard of, but are supposed to vote for because they are Republicans. If everyone just supports one party’s candidates, why do we even bother to vote for individuals? Why don’t we just go down and select D or R? Our whole society wants to pigeonhole EVERYONE as either a liberal or a conservative - both groups painting the other as devils. I know I don’t fit perfectly into either mold, and I’m guessing you don’t either.

Remember, when you go to vote, don’t vote for a party, vote for a person.

Finally, some anti-Paccione websites! I’ve had some links to some very outspoken Marilyn Musgrave critics for a little while now, but these are the first sites I’ve seen criticizing Angie Paccione.

Paccione On Immigration.com
Liberal Extremist.com

The Greeley Tribune had some reader editorials on Scott Renfroe, Angie Paccione and Dale Hall.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions, except for one comment.  What does it say about a person if the only qualification they have worth talking about is experience?

Rep Marilyn Musgrave won an amendment to a Justice Department appropriations bill that would prevent any money from being spent to enforce a mandate that gun dealers sell trigger locks with the guns that they sell. The article in the Rocky Mountain News is less than flattering for Musgrave. There are several things about this issue that amuse/frustrate me.

1. Why is Musgrave taking the heat for this? Sure, she sponsored it, but the amendment passed 230-191. Why don’t we write articles about the other 230 that voted for it, including Democrat Ken Salazar?
2. How do laws like this get passed without any appropriations attached? Let’s pass a law that we can’t pass laws unless we have a way to enforce/pay for them.
3. Why do we listen to guys like Peter Hamm who only come up with half the facts?

Hamm said that

last year, 2,849 children or teen-agers died from gunfire in the United States, and he believes trigger locks are key to reducing the fatalities.

Lets have some real analysis on these facts Mr. Hamm. How many were gang killings? How many involved newly purchased handguns? How many involved handguns at all? Why are trigger locks ‘key to reducing the fatalities’ other than because you say so?

Personally I’m glad this ridiculous law won’t get enforced (would have saved a lot of time and money if it had never been passed to start with). The liberals in this country know they can’t get the 2nd amendment repealed, so they just keep making it harder and harder for ‘licensed gun dealers’ to stay in business. If they have their way guns will still be legal, but the only way to buy them will be on the black market.

Of cource, Paccione supporters seem to be using this as a rallying issue. Funny, I haven’t read a Paccione press release yet with a strong stance on gun control…

Fox News has an interesting story about someone stuffing dog poop through a mail slot at Marilyn Musgrave’s Greeley office. A spokesmen for Musgrave, of course, demanded an apology from Angela Paccione

The best part is, the assailant used an envelope from her own house with her nine digit Zip code on it. This allowed police to narrow the search down to 4 or 5 houses and find the house that had a dog. Sounds like an episode of CSI to me.

Just a note to anyone out there that thinks all of us western hicks are crazy. This is NOT represntative of the Greeley population. The rest of us would have known you are supposed to set the dog poop on fire…