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— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 30, 2014As part of the store’s closing sale, all books will be 50% off from July 1 until the store closes.Great. When my gummint stipend arrives the third all the good stuff will be gone, not, of course, that I need any more clutter.
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This is an excerpt from As Maine Went: Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine, a new book by Mike Tipping out this July. Pre-order the book through Kickstarter.O.K., the book title isn't inflammatory. What caught the eye was the TPMMuck title:
Now the inner editor asks, w/o more than a ritual & cursory scan, will it back our original reaction, "Are there no sedition laws?"Why Did Maine's Governor Conspire
With 'Sovereign Citizen' Extremists?
Listeners tuning in that morning were greeted first with a medley of patriotic and religious songs and then by the voices of Jack McCarthy and Steve Martin, hosts of the Aroostook Watchmen radio show.Does AM radiation make these people worse? Which brings up the caveat that all the hot poop on Maine's Goob'ner seems to come from these two "Watchmen." And Gov. Mucilage appears to have finally been wised up by his staff (You can imagine what fun even the semi-rational must have when the boss is a dumb cluck like LePage. If they weren't glibertarian nimrods to begin w/ some amount of pity night be felt.)
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This particular Monday morning, the Watchmen discussed new evidence that they said proved the Sandy Hook school shooting was a false-flag operation made possible through government mind control. They warned that Jewish Senators Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Lieberman were attempting to disarm the patriots of America so that they could begin their “holocaust against America’s Christian population.” They also had something more locally relevant to talk about: McCarthy’s hour-and-a-half meeting, two days earlier, with Maine Governor Paul LePage.
Soon after this meeting, a Freedom of Access request for the documents that have informed much of this report was filed, alerting the governor’s staff that word of the meetings had spread. Sometime before the governor’s next meeting with the Constitutionalists, LePage’s legal staff presented him with a five-page memo arguing that the Sovereign Citizens were misinterpreting the law. They wrote that the right of remonstrance “does not include and has never included any rights of citizens to compel legislation or compel the government to act in any certain way.” In short, they finally explained to LePage the sheer ridiculousness of the basic premise of the conversations the governor had been having with the group for the prior eight months.Too bad, really. Maybe the Watchmen could have talked the Governor into dissolving Maine's state gov't. & empowering the reeve of each shire as the lord (BUT ELECTED!! WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY?) of his fief.
No real surprises, of course, merely the same mealy-mouthed lies iterated again in defense of evil. It is to be noted that the crime to which Mr. D'Souza pled guilty was essentially lying, & there's no indication here that he's learned the error of his ways.For young people, and young adults who were taught spongy “social studies” rather than true American history, the most valuable parts of the movie might be those in which D’Souza tackles America’s greatest sins: its treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the transfer of half of Mexico to the U.S. after the Mexican War of 1848, and its supposed colonialist behavior. Consider his treatment of those subjects as his direct rebuttal to the works of radical historian Howard Zinn, whose textbooks treating America’s history as one of ceaseless oppression dominate many American high schools and colleges.
“The Indians have gotten a bad deal,” he notes in his book. “At the same time, we should be clear about what the alternatives are. . . . You say, ‘Give us back the Black Hills,’ you point out that there is uranium and other minerals in those hills, and now that land is worth a fortune. Once again, no Indian tribe knew how to mine uranium and no Indian tribe knew what to do with uranium if they had it. Other Americans have added value to the Black Hills by figuring out how to tap its resources, and now the Indians want the land back so they can take advantage of what others have figured out how to do.”
He takes a similarly hard line with the demands of some Latinos to return land that once belonged to Mexico: “After the war, the United States immediately recognized as valid the property rights of Mexicans who were now part of U.S. territory. The change was not in any individual’s land ownership but in the fact that people who were once Mexicans now became Americans. . . . While progressives deplore American aggression . . . what we do know is that the vast majority of Mexicans who ended up on the American side of the border, following the Mexican War, never attempted to return to Mexico. And neither have their descendants.”
“Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen?” he asks in the book. Yes, he says, but “that debt . . . is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.” He notes that when the great boxer Muhammad Ali won one of his most famous fights (the “rumble in the jungle” against George Foreman in Zaire in the 1970s), he was asked by a reporter, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” Ali replied, “Thank God my grandaddy got on that boat!” Ali recognized, D’Souza boldly claims, “that for all the horror of slavery, it was the transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western freedom.” He quotes the black writer Zora Neale Hurston: “I have no personal memory of those times, and no responsibility for them. Neither has the grandson of the man who held my folks. . . . I have no intention of wasting my time beating on old graves. . . . Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and that is worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it.” D’Souza also notes that slavery has been a worldwide phenomenon throughout most of human history, and that whites were often enslaved — it’s hardly a sin unique to America, which fought a civil war to free its slaves.
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In further amazement, the book,Ten minutes before the motorcade reached the Čumurja bridge a policeman approached Čabrinović, demanding that he identify himself. He produced a permit that purported to have been issued by the Viennese police and asked the policeman which car was carrying the archduke. ‘The third’ he was told. A few minutes later he took out his grenade, knocked off the detonator cap and threw it at the limousine carrying the archduke and the duchess. Because there was a twelve-second delay between knocking off the cap and the explosion, the grenade hit the limousine, bounced off, rolled under the next car, and exploded. General Potiorek’s aide-de-camp was injured, along with several spectators. The duchess suffered a slight wound to her cheek, where she had been grazed by the grenade’s detonator.
Čabrinović swallowed his cyanide capsule and jumped over the embankment into the river. But the cyanide failed and the river had been reduced to a mere trickle in mid-summer. He was captured immediately by a policeman who asked him if he was a Serb. ‘Yes, I am a Serb hero’, he replied.
Excerpted from “The Month that Changed the World: July 1914” by Gordon Martel. Copyright © 2014 by Gordon Martel. Reprinted by arrangement with Oxford University Press, a division of Oxford University. All rights reserved.was excerpted on-line.
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Here be the ++cursory video & helmet image.It began inauspiciously enough: On New Year’s Day, 1914, The New York Times carried a story about the merger of two British colonies, one Muslim, one Christian, to create Nigeria. There was a piece on Mexico’s revolution, another on a march by suffragists from Manhattan to Albany demanding the vote for women, and a notice that the North German Lloyd shipping line cut its rates to encourage trans-Atlantic passenger traffic.
Such was the prosaic start to the year that would launch the bloodiest war the world had ever known — one which, in one form or another, has raged on in different, ever more insidious forms for a century now. The idea that World War I can be viewed merely between 1914 and 1918 is absurd. It is the war that has never ended.
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Rep. Frank Lucas, and a few other Oklahoma and other States’ Congressional Members were depicted as being executed by The World Court on or about Jan. 11, 2011 in Southern Ukraine. On television they were depicted as being executed by the hanging about the neck until death on a white stage and in front of witnesses. Other now current Members of Congress have shared those facts on television also. We know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements, however Rep. Lucas was not eligible to serve as a Congressional Member after that time.Here are some more words from Murray, not in any obviously sensible order, but completely sic:
This is a situation similar to the Senators’ from Kentucky situation in the 2012 election. I am contesting that this matter has happen since his election was blocked, because of the U.S. Defense Department’s use of Mr. Murray’s DNA. To my knowledge, the U.S. Defense Department has not released to the public that information, as it is their confidential information about many people. Congress is likely wanting me to state that all my DNA used will not result in benefits to people I have never had relations with of a family nature. I have been bound to protect that information unless it causes harm to The People.Hard to believe, but Timmy Ray may not be as Republican as he seems. (Incumbent Lewis said Murray ran for the same seat as a Democrat in 2012.) He might do better (Seven, even eight per cent?) under the banner of a party more tailored to his particular issues than the G.O.P. (currently) is. The Philip K. Dick/William S. Burroughs Mutual Memorial Sci-Fi Paranoia/Sovereign Citizen DNA Party? W/ Timmy Ray Fester pimping it? He'll be clearing out all the DoD DNA on Inauguration Day 2017!
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Y'know, "I'm pissed, I'm raging" is the opening line here every night, but no one can possibly care after "Men Marrying Horses!" part X to the zillionth, can they? Even if it is hot off the iPhone from last night's news (Hunch: A few days old; local idiocy oozes slowly across the iNternet. Yep, cold off the presses: Tues. 24 June 2014.) in the name of all that's decent, it's not as if there are no other examples of this sort of thing on the iNternet.GOP Candidate Says Ruling Will Lead to Incestuous Marriage
Wisconsin congressional candidate Karen Mueller (R) said that a recent federal ruling striking down Wisconsin's same-sex marriage ban could lead to incestuous marriages, the Tomah Journal reports.
Said Mueller: "We've got, for instance, two sisters, and these two sisters want to get married. They love each other. They are committed to each other. They want to spend the rest of their life together."
She said their lawyers could argue, "'We can just do away with that state law the same way we did away with sodomy laws.' Once you do away with that, you reveal what is really going on here."
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Republican Third Congressional District candidate Karen Mueller addresses Monroe County Republicans at a “Meet the Candidates” event Tuesday. Jourdan Vian, Tomah Newspapers |
Every single child in these United Snakes & Canada is held in a room against their will virtually all the time, whether it be a classroom, a schoolAs ProPublica detailed last week, public schools put children in restraints or so-called seclusion, holding them in
a room against their will, at least 267,000 times in just one school year.
Of course, the very best "assessor" of the situation is the kind of petty & vindictive tyrant who becomes a school administrator & is pissed beyond belief at any little punks who dare challenge his or her authority. Again, fuck you people.Prominent Republicans say that even if restraints should be limited, the federal government shouldn’t be in the business of setting school policy and the matter should be left up to state and local leaders. Of the House bill’s 41 co-sponsors, just three are Republicans.
Among the opponents is Rep. John Kline, R-MN, the chairman of the House’s education committee. ProPublica’s calls to Kline’s office were not returned. But back in 2012, a spokeswoman for Kline told ABC News, “Chairman Kline believes state officials and school leaders are best equipped to determine appropriate policies that should be in place to protect students and to hold those who violate those policies accountable.”
Two school lobbies — school district leaders and school boards — also oppose the bill. The administrators have long been among the bills’ most vocal opponents.
“AASA refuses to accept the idea,” the American Association of School Administrators wrote in a 2012 position paper it still supports, “that public school employees are over-using seclusion and restraint and/or using it inappropriately.”
The administrators association and the National School Boards Association issued a joint statement this past February blasting the current Senate bill as “a federal overreach” that “fails to recognize the need for local school personnel to make decisions based on their onsite, real-time assessment of the situation.”
To be expected of a religion that's the largest death cult on the planet, I suppose. A "civilized" people (When will we see one in this world?) would not let people be w/o shelter; fuck you, priestly hypocrite.Beyond providing for DC’s growing homeless population in life, homeless advocates and religious leaders are trying to make sure they’re remembered in death.
“I think that’s what a civilized people does,” said Linda Kaufman, national field organizer for the 100,000 Homes Campaign and an episcopal [sic] priest. “Somebody rejoiced when this kid was born. I think it’s really important that their life and death be memorialized, whether it’s with 50 people or three people.”
In a later interview, LePage’s spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, said that despite saying he considered Social Security and Medicare to be forms of welfare, the governor did not necessarily consider Social Security and Medicare to be forms of welfare. According to the Portland Herald Press, Bennett did not go into greater detail or respond to further requests for comment.
LePage is running for reelection this year and is currently slightly behind the Democratic Party nominee, Rep. Mike Michaud.
1. Women, Not Students, Are The Target Of Most Mass Gun Murder.There have been 74 shootings at schools across the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012, according to Everytown For Gun Safety — which, astoundingly, the pro-gun side claims is an inflated figure. As headline-grabbing as school shootings are, the under-reported daily target and toll from gun violence involves women. More American women have been murdered by their intimate partners using guns since 2001 (6,410) than U.S. troops have been killed in combat (5,315) in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Center for American Progress reports. Guns are involved in at least 34 percent of all murders of women commited by their partners, an average of five a day, CAP found from crime statistics.What a country. Pin-dicked losers so scared of women they have to shoot them from a distance. What's wrong w/ that picture?
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| Local Cuban-American residents march in solidarity with Cuba’s Damas de Blanco on Sunday from the Visitors Information Center to the Plaza de la Constitucion. They march in silence to protest Cuba’s political prisoners. Photo by PERRY KNOTTS, Special to The Record |
A new Pew Research survey finds that 47% of Cuban registered voters nationwide now say they identify with or lean toward the Republican Party -- down from the 64% who said the same about the GOP a decade ago.Try harder w/ the vote suppression, Florida GOP. (We know you will.)
Meanwhile, the share of Cubans who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party has doubled from 22% to 44% over the same time period.
Jr. and His Soulettes are made up of 4 brothers and sisters. Harold Moore, Jr., (age 10), and his sisters Vinta Marie (age 9), Denise Marshall (age 7) and Jacquelin Carel (age 6).
Rumor has it that in 1971, when this record was first pressed, their dad had the bright idea to shrink wrap the vinyl at their uncle's meat packing shop. Of the 300 or so copies pressed, only a handful survived, and [the] rest were destroyed at the shop.
"This winter we began experiencing conditions that we would usually see in August,” said Chief Ken Pimlott, CAL FIRE director. “In Southern California we never really transitioned out of fire season and in Northern California we began hiring seasonal firefighters several months earlier than normal. We have increased our personnel and now we need the public to make sure they, too, are prepared for early fire season conditions.”Because a neatly-trimmed lawn is all that matters. To hell w/ the aristocrats, when do we start killing the morons who pass as functional among us? Set the woods on fire w/ your fucking lawnmower, be burned at the stake, home-owning asshole.
With record low rainfall, the grass and brush across California is tinder dry and ready to burn. Between January 1 and June 7, CAL FIRE responded to over 2,100 wildfires that charred over 17,000 acres. In an average year for the same time period, CAL FIRE would typically respond to about 1,250 wildfires for just over 10,000 acres.
Many of these fires have been sparked by powered equipment like lawn mowers and weed trimmers. While maintaining Defensible Space is critical right now, residents are asked not to use powered equipment outdoors during the heat of the day when it’s dry and windy, and especially on Red Flag Warning Days. Clearance work should be done in the early morning when temperatures are down and humidity is up, to avoid sparking a wildfire. One Less Spark, One Less Wildfire.
(How things work: Sean J. O'Connell thinks & types, a music video listicle is made, we read about it elsewhere, you get to snap your fingers to the devil-rhythms w/ the merest click of a finger.)From the late 1910s until the mid-1950s the neighborhood surrounding Central Avenue was the heart of Los Angeles’s African American community. Restrictive housing laws and a web of oppression confined artists, doctors, ship welders, and jazz legends to a narrow strip three miles south of downtown. Proximity bred creativity and a scene of tremendous creativity developed. It was here that swing and bebop transformed into R&B and eventually became rock and roll.
For nearly fifty years, jazz legends like Charlie Parker and Lester Young passed through the neighborhood while budding local legends like Dexter Gordon and Charles Mingus took copious notes before setting off on careers of their own. The scene peaked during World War II, expanding to the newly formed Bronzeville neighborhood (formerly Little Tokyo) and offered swinging sounds 24 hours a day to appeal to defense industry employees who worked the nightshift. The scene became so popular that LAPD crackdowns became commonplace in an attempt to dissuade Hollywood stars like Orson Welles and Humphrey Bogart from “slumming it."
When he recorded it in 1942 under his own name, honking saxophonist Illinois Jacquet drove the performance into a ribald frenzy that was a touchstone for the rapid evolution towards rock and R&B that would follow.
[Sean J. O'Connell's Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz (Arcadia Publishing), the story of Los Angeles’s contribution to the development of 20th century popular music, came out on May 26 and is available online and at local bookstores.]
The blaze was difficult to fight; firefighters had to use high-powered rifles to shatter the windows to get water inside.
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Oh, what the hell, that's half of it already, here's the rest:The Marines—250 of them, together with carrier air support and Marine Corps Osprey support craft—have been dispatched to save the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the “biggest in the world,” “the size of the Vatican City,” with its swimming pools and skating rinks, from the menace of the offensive directed at Baghdad by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—the new Islamic Caliphate sought by the religiously rigorous Sunni counter-crusade.
ISIS already has taken Mosul and a large chunk of northeastern Iraq, and is aimed now at the Shia shrine city of Samarra and Baghdad itself. Some of us who witnessed the announcement and ambitions of that embassy when it was built had the premonitory thought that it might eventually end as the capitol of that Muslim Caliphate which the ISIS fanatics now have proclaimed, and which, in Washington, only the paranoid imagined.
The Baghdad Embassy was intended to become the proconsular headquarters of an American-Israeli-conceived new western empire that was announced in Israel in June 2006 jointly by the American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Its announcement coincided with an Israeli attack on Lebanon, foreseen as becoming the western Mediterranean access to what the two officials announced would become a “New Middle East” extending from Mediterranean Lebanon and Syria, through a federal Iraq of Sunni, Shia and Kurdish statelets, proceeding through a conquered Iran in Central Asia, to a “Free Baluchistan,” a NATO-ized Afghanistan, and an allied Pakistan, to the approaches of the Himalayas, and beyond them, to the rising counter-empire of the Chinese.
Ah, bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, and to be young and neo-conservative in Bush IV’s Washington and Arab-conquering Tel Aviv (the June attack on Lebanon proved to be the one unexpectedly beaten back by Hezbollah). I recall a summons that winter to a festive meeting in Brussels of the NATO nations, for a press conference to be told more about, and celebrate, this sweeping new geopolitical prospect sprung from the collective brows of the visionary intellectuals who surrounded the conquering President George W. Bush.
For fuck's sake. Drop the big one, eliminate "those people" & their gutter "people of the book"/Hebrew war gawd religions. Also conveniently removes the temptation fossil fuels pose to the corporate Nazis who (whether or not you'll admit it) run the fucking world. Fuck them all.Today, in disillusioned Washington, Republicans and Democrats fight over how Iraq is to be defended, if not by more “boots on the ground,” as they like to say, than the Marine Corps is providing? But can air operations be really effective without observers on the ground? And a scattered mass of fast-moving individual irregulars do not present easy targets.
As for those Americans who are among the prime objectives for those ISIS irregulars, it seems that when the United States withdrew its “combat forces” from Iraq, at Iraq’s demand, not everybody fell into that definition. It is reported that some 5,000 people work in the monumental embassy, and reports are that a group of 500 contractors from Lockheed-Martin have been working at Balal Airbase, while one also assumes that there are American missions of one or another nature still active elsewhere in Iraq. It is reported that some Americans have already been embarked for Jordan and Kuwait.
The second imminent political clash in Washington is one that currently fascinates America’s European allies (plus the Israeli government). It is over what the United States will make of the fact that its interest in Iraq now coincides with Iran’s interest—both wishing to save the Shia government of the imprudent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and also for Iran to prevent the destruction of the treasured Shia religious shrines of Samarra.
I say this interests the European allies because they have never approved, nor indeed seriously considered, the fanatical hostility of the American government and much of its political class to Iran and its people. They understand, of course, that to have the functionaries at work in one of your foreign embassies taken prisoner by students (to the silent gratification of the revolutionary government in that country) and held captive for 444 days—plenty of time to read and publish all the reading matter on the premises—and on top of that to bungle a maladroit rescue scheme, adds up to a grand humiliation. (All we were doing was simply supporting their dictatorial Shah.)
And of course everyone in the diplomatic business understands the constantly reiterated pressure Washington is under from Israel and its friends, who fear Iran and want to destroy it as the only other serious major country in the region. But still—to cut your nation off from any serious relationship with one of the larger and more important non-western nations in the world, a big oil-producer to boot—seems an absurd case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. It is even worse than Washington’s childish, and half-century long, bullying persecution of Cuba. Grow up, the Europeans say.
But for Washington to cooperate in any serious way on the Iraq crisis with what is, objectively, its strategic partner in the region, Iran, would constitute in Israeli eyes a fateful “reversal of alliances,” and even if Israel’s government said little about this (its supporters in the United States would say a lot!), the Israeli right, and much of the rest of Israel’s political class, would judge the U.S. an equivocal and dangerous false friend. Israel would be plunged into even deeper paranoia than that with which it already lives. In that case it could become a very dangerous state—for Iran, or even for the United States.
“Brent lives a simple life and doesn’t have many needs,” says Marc. “If he could, he would spend all of his time surfing the Internet looking for causes to champion, and then go post about them, never leaving the house.”Well, he's probably never leaving the big house again. (Now if I could just afford grocery delivery.)
Saddest thing of today's news cycle? The above is about the most amusing thing encountered all day, & it happened Weds. Isn't this an election yr.? Where's the wkly. gun massacre/spree killing/murder of gummint agents? (Sorry, has to be fatal or it's water off the back of the tee vee herd & their air-conditioning.) Mere coffee can't keep me awake enough to be interested in what people bother to do, say or pretend.Dan Coats, R-Ind., was asking about how prepared the military was to act in Iraq. “Based on my previous service in the Senate and some service now, I’m totally aware that the Pentagon has a contingency plan on the shelf for just about every possible scenario, everything from nuclear war to an invasion by Canada, and everything in between,” he said, per the transcript by CQ.com.
Answered Gen. Martin E. Dempsey [C.J.C.S.]:
“Let me first assure you we do not have a plan on the shelf for the invasion of Canada. I want to make sure that our Canadian allies, who may be watching…
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)”
The Obama administration has previously denied any secret plan to invade Canada, but this is the first public admission that it has no blueprint to be able to do so if needed.
If Dempsey is to be believed — and some Canadians have assumed that the U.S. military has just such a plan on the shelf — he is ignoring military history. The United States found cause to invade Canada in 1775 and 1812, then developed War Plan Red in the 1920s and 30s, which contemplated a potential invasion of Canada.
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A federal appeals court has struck down a ban on homeless people in Los Angeles living in their cars, basically saying the law was so broad it could be used to cite someone eating In-N-Out in their car.Need I add, fuck the police & selective enforcement.
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The appeals court said the language of the ordinance was broad enough to cover any driver in L.A. who eats in their car or is even transporting personal things, but seemed to only be applied to the homeless.
Anybody's guess? Maybe the only Southerners he knows are smarmy grandmother grifting politicians.C'mon, it's not as if Senator Graham or Rep. Cantor sound like John Wayne or any other representation of a "real" American. Or Texan.And here he is on the -- and we can't believe we're typing this -- relative femininity of Southern men, in which he actually says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) seems gay:
Last week, I called him on the night Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated in his GOP primary. "Don't hold this against me, but I'm going to blurt it out. How do I say this ... men in the South, they are a little effeminate," he offered when I mentioned the stunning news. When I asked him what he meant, he added, "They just have effeminate mannerisms. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right—but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting."Why Schweitzer felt the need to make these comments is anybody's guess. What's pretty clear is that he's got basically no filter. So what seems folksy and spontaneous one day could just as easily turn into campaign-ending gaffe the next day.
