Air America finally bit the big one!

Well, I have been predicting this since 2005, and finally the rich Liberals have gotten tired of pumping cash into a failed and dying network. I don’t think it ever made it over 100 stations, although Memphis actually had an affiliate for about a year, WWTQ. They gave up after they couldn’t fit a piece of paper between their Nielson rating and zero.

I listened to them from time to time, but finally gave up. I listened to them just to hear what they were saying. But years of “Bush lied!” “Bush is a Nazi!” “Bush is EEeevil!” tends to grate on even the faithful after a couple of years.

Of course, the Liberals who ran it and supported it will blame Conservative talk radio. And everybody else as well. The reasons why Liberal talk radio failed are many and varied, and none of the reasons are their fault.

Let us hope that no more liberals without radio experience try to start it back up again. I would rather drill a hole in my head with a 1/2″ paddle bit than listen to any more Liberal talk radio. I’m sure there are tens of millions of Conservatives who feel the same way as I do.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Well, unless the Liberals can pull 100,000 votes out of their behinds, We have 41 Republicans in the US Senate. Don’t start celebrating quite yet. There are still a couple of dirty tricks that the Liberals can pull. They can use the “nuclear option,” Which would get rid of the 60 vote rule (because the 60 vote thing is just a point of procedure for the Senate), or the House could quickly vote on the Senates passed bill, negating the need for a compromise committee to unify the House and Senate bills for a final vote. If the House passes the Senate bill, then the President can sign it into law and it wouldn’t matter for “health care reform” if the Senate Republicans could block it or not.

There are a couple of other dirty tricks they could try, but I can’t think of them right off the top of my head.

Anyway, the most Liberal state in the Union, (guess who voted Democrat in Reagans 1984 49 state landslide) put a Republican into office. I don’t know enough about him to say he is a Conservative, because just because you are a Republican doesn’t automatically mean you’re Conservative and vice versa.

He is not against health care reform, but he is against this bill of health care reform. After the citizens of Massachusets have already suffered under a microcosm of what the national health care reform would be, they don’t want it, and I can hardly blame them.

Be happy, but don’t start celebrating yet. We still have a lot of work to do.

I just learned this morning that Left Wing Cracker’s long time partner has died. All of the details are on Facebook, where I do not/cannot go, but from what I understand, she had a heart attack, then suffered brain death sometime last night. She will, however, live on in other people as LWC & family has donated her organs.

My deepest sympathies go out to LWC and all of the family and friends that surrounded Lauren.

I just got an email while I was on vacation that my win several months ago in a Flames of War tournament at Gamerz Depot has me qualified for the 2010 Nationals being held this summer, somewhere up in Eastern Pennsylvania. Some details are still up in the air, but I’m starting to save for the trip. I hope to split the trip with somebody so I don’t have to pay a whole lot more than I need to.

I figured that if I drove up by myself, and stayed by myself, it would be right around $1,100. I can pretty much cut that in half if I go with one other person, and even more if I split it with others. So, since I don’t do debt, I’m doing it in cash, that I’m socking away some every payday. I missed last years Nationals because I would have had to go on my own, and I didn’t have enough time to save up. This time I’m doing it right, and I should make it.

Which means, I have to get on the ball and actually develop a good tournament list, and paint it, since it is a requirement that I use all of their vehicles and that they are all painted. I have about 27 weeks, so I should be able to get it done, since I paint at a glacial speed. I’ll have some examples up as soon as I think they are presentable.

I know this comes a little late, but I just wanted to make sure that I told everyone who reads this blog that I wish them a healthy, wealthy and just generally good 2010! May all of your good dreams come true.

I’ll get back on the ball soon, I’ve spent the last 11 days off work, and I am looking forward to going back to work so I can rest up from my vacation! It seems that I have more to do and work a lot harder on vacation than I do at my day job!