Echoes

I realize there hasn't been much of anything going on here in some time. Life has been in something of a holding pattern lately, and (1) it isn't something that I feel like elaborating on here and (2) it doesn't make very interesting reading anyway. But the light at the end of that tunnel is pretty close (even if it doesn't seem to be getting any closer quite yet), and there's some adventures on the horizon. First up, I'll be in Laramie and various parts of Colorado this coming weekend for the 2009 Star Wars CCG Wyoming State Tournament and a Denver local with Jon "Cates" Cates, which pretty much a guaranteed formula for wackiness. Stay tuned for trip updates and tournament reports that may or may not feature stolen B-wings and rancors.

So how about that Sarah Palin? My main thoughts on the subject are pretty much "STAY DOWN!" John McCain, on the other hand, said, "I don't think she quit. I think she changed her priorities." Y'know, since that totally makes it alright. I almost thought he was talking about someone else I know. Weird.

Don't let the bastards bring you down,
Regis

Annual Review

Friday marked my third anniversary as an employee of Aspen Mountain, and today I had my annual review with my boss (the VP of the company). It pretty much went like this (I'm not paraphrasing, honest):

"The president is happy with you, the secretary is happy with you, I'm happy with you, everyone else is happy with you. Keep up the good work."

One more year until I can sit for the PE, but it won't be offered until October, so I really have 18 months. Maybe I should start studying.

Haven't We Been Here Before?

I heard a radio ad this weekend from the NRCC, blasting Gary Trauner as a "typical liberal Democrat" that wants to give amnesty and benefits like social security to illegal immigrants and other such distortions. Ignoring the logical gap there (if illegal immigrants get amnesty, won't they pay taxes like the rest of us and thus contribute to social security?), I occurred to me that this is just business as usual.

Remember the House race in 2006? We had a rubber stamp Republican that couldn't campaign on her own merits, so she started slinging mud. When that wasn't enough and she was dead even in the polls with Trauner, the NRCC came in and slung some more mud for her. It must have been enough, as she won by a razor-thin margin.

We're facing the same damn thing here in 2008, except it's a bleach-blond rubber stamp Republican instead of a brunette rubber stamp Republican. Dammit, we're smarter than this, Wyoming. And we deserve better than Cynthia Lummis.

Those who ignore history get the exciting opportunity to repeat it,
Regis

It's Too Easy

...but I'm posting it anyway.

Say what you will about her and the campaign she's running, but Cynthia Lummis isn't doing this by halves: she was absent from a League of Women Voters forum in Laramie yesterday, much like the woman she seeks to succeed is far too often absent from her job in Washington. In fact, both Senators Enzi and Barrasso were also not present; they were represented by campaign staffers and Ms. Lummis was represented by her daughter.

All three of their Democratic opponents - Gary Trauner, Chris Rothfuss, and Nick Carter, respectively - found time to show up.

Are certain parties depending on the good people of Wyoming to vote for them just because they have an "R" after their names, rather than any real effort put forth to win votes on actual merits? This is one entitlement program I'd love to cut.

Look, it's still snowing,
Regis