Republican party in Alaska in complete disarray as Chairwoman kicked out after locking party officials out of the Alaska Republican Party headquarters and threatening to have them arrested. Dammit, am I out of popcorn?

Ex-Chairwoman Debbie Brown.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:

 Locked out of the less-than-lavish headquarters of the Alaska Republican Party in a snowstorm, state leaders of the Grand Old Party adjourned to a comfortable, Midtown Anchorage office complex Monday evening and decided they’d had enough of the antics of party chairwoman Debbie Brown.

Officially, money -- or the lack thereof -- was the reason for Brown’s ouster. Like recently fired predecessor Russ Millette, who never officially made it into the chairman’s seat, Brown was accused of being unable to raise any. 

Money that is. She seemed plenty good at raising the blood pressure of the party leadership. 

First she tried to fire members of the party’s state executive committee. When they refused to go, she changed the locks on the party headquarters in Midtown Anchorage and left the state. When the executive committee called her up on charges of failure to meet her responsibilities as chair, she refused to appear. 

Reports as to her whereabouts varied, but there seemed agreement she was still out of state, apparently on vacation or preparing for the Republican National Committee meeting in Hollywood, or both. Republican national committeeman Ralph Seekins from Fairbanks noted the RNC meeting starts Wednesday. 

Much discussion was had about the whereabouts of Brown, normally a resident of Kasilof on the Kenai Peninsula, and the appearances of trying her in absentia. Attorney Wayne Anthony Ross -- or WAR, as he is commonly know -- sent the executive committee a wordy, six-page letter citing his lengthy party credentials, questioning the fairness of the hearing, and warning the actions “by these members who I call the ‘old guard led by our former chairman (Randy Ruderich), seriously lessen the credibility and effectiveness of the RPA to Republicans.”

Wow they even brought WAR in to try and hang onto control. Yeah. like HE is ever any help!

Just to bring all of you up to speed as to the cause of this recent kerfuffle among the Alaska Republicans, it was sparked by Joe Miller's attempt to implement Sarah Palin's 2008 plan of overthrowing the Alaska Republican party. (You remember that, right? That was when Joe Miller introduced FBI informant, Bill Fulton, to future Alaska domestic terrorist Schaeffer Cox.)

Miller, using ties to the Teabaggers in the state, and some die hard Ron Paul supporters, managed to insert his guy, Russ Millette, into the chairmanship. That did not go over very well with the Alaska GOP hierarchy and he was quickly ousted to be replaced by another Miller  acolyte, Debbie Brown.

Well now she is out, and Miller and his ragtag group of assholes are fuming mad.

This was written by one of his "reporters" over on his blog (Yes he also has a blog) the other day: 

The Republican Party is in a war for its very spirit. Will a small cabal of political machinists continue to run the party for personal interest while continuing to lose ground to the conquering socialists like the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek did before Mao Zedong? Or will the party be returned back to its grass roots supporters? Your action or inaction will be the deciding factor for the future of unborn millions. Grass roots Republicans have a once in a generation chance to let light shine out of the darkness. The Republican Party must once again wield the torch of freedom that guided the footsteps of our Founding Fathers. 

Currently the Republican money  in Alaska has been squirreled away in Juneau, where Miller and his motley crew cannot get their hands on it. So as of right now the Republican party has no leadership, no money, and no clear vision for the future.

Essentially it is like the Alaska version of "Lord of the Flies."

Hang on I think my popcorn's done.

If you thought you had heard that speech by NRA President Wayne LaPierre before, perhaps you have. Archie Bunker gave it about forty years ago.

Now you might consider Carroll O'Connor's delivery pretty humorous, and indeed it was written for laughs, however it is not so funny when you compare it to what LaPierre actually said.

Essentially the only real difference between what Archie Bunker said in a sitcom back in the 1970's and the NRA President's speech yesterday is the passage of time and the laugh track.

Also not very funny, but pretty damn ironic is that at the very same time that LaPierre was telling the television audience that "guns don't kill people," and "the only thing that stops a bad guy with gun is a good guy with a gun" there was a guy walking down the streets of Pennsylvania making a mockery of his argument:  

According to local reports out of Blair County, at least four people were killed and five more were injured in a shooting spree near Altoona. The gunman is said to be among the dead, and at least two state troopers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. 

WPXI's Courtney Brennan says she was told by emergency officials that the shooting suspect "was 'mobile' at one point and went up and down a rural road and shot victims."

You know another thing that made a mockery of what LaPierre said, were the actual facts  of one of the worst shootings in America's history.

LaPierre claimed that if there had been armed officers inside the Sandy Hook Elementary school, that Adam Lanza would never have dared to enter the premises and open fire.

Well tell that to the two officers who were present when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started massacring their fellow students in Columbine High school. The two gunmen knew the officers were there, yet with superior firepower they simply outgunned them, and continued on their rampage unabated.

I am almost tempted to call the NRA, as it is today, a joke. Not a funny one, but a joke nonetheless,

Especially considering the clowns that populate its board of directors.

Here are a few you might recognize:

John Bolton, George W. Bush's pugnacious Ambassador to the U.N.
Grover Norquist, anti-tax fetishist and the man currently holding the GOP hostage.
Chuck Norris, ex-martial arts superstar and current advocate for putting Bibles in school classrooms.
Oliver North, disgraced in the Iran-Contra affair during Ronald Reagan's second term.
Ted Nugent, old "poopy pants" himself.
Larry "wide stance" Craig
Wayne Anthony Ross, Sarah Palin's ex-attorney and the first person in Alaska history to be refused confirmation as Attorney General.
Rep. Don Young, Alaska's lone Congressman and an individual who once used the term "There will come a day when those who will bite will be killed too, and I'm very good at that!"

However like I said though these are clearly a bunch of clowns, they are NO laughing matter. For they have each done their part to cause great harm to our country and its' people.

And to find evidence of that harm you need to look no further than Newtown, Connecticut.

Ted Nugent agrees to pay $10,000 fine because some "crazy law" in Alaska will not allow him to leave enraged wounded bears roaming the wilderness. Update!

This from the ADN:

Activist and musician Ted Nugent has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors admitting he illegally shot and transported black bear in Southeast Alaska two years ago, according to the agreement.

Nugent, 63, launched an arrow at a black bear while on a bow-hunting trip with friends in Tongass National Forest in May 2009. Federal prosecutors say he wounded the bear, attracted to the hunters by a bait station. Nugent's lawyer says the arrow grazed the animal and it scampered off alive. 

Whether injured or merely scratched, the bear got away. Nugent shot and killed another bear four days later. Then he put the scenes on TV.

Now this law is fairly self explanatory, and Nugent really did not have much  flexibility with which to launch a defense. However just to make sure he would lose he hired ex-Plain flunkie, and worst lawyer ever, Wayne Anthony Ross (We call him WAR) to defend him.

You remember WAR right?

He was sort of like Elmer Fudd's less capable brother, who Sarah Palin once tried to foist on Alaskans as their Attorney General, but who the Alaska bloggers, and others, helped send back into the shadows.

Here is what Ross had to say about this law and his client:

 "They've got apparently some crazy law in Southeast that says if you even touch an animal with an arrow, it becomes your animal," Ross said by phone Friday. "He looked to see if he had hit it and didn't believe that he'd hit it fatally." 

Ross said he watched video from that episode of "Spirit of the Wild." The lawyer and gun-rights advocate said the arrow "touched" the bear and stuck in the ground. It might have cut the bear's skin, he said. 

I like how Ross characterizes it as just "touching" the bear. As if Theodore simply walked up to the bear and tapped it on the nose saying, "This time I will let you go, but next time you are going to be a throw rug."  In reality Nugent tried to kill the bear while trying to show his best side to the camera crew that accompanied him, hit it, and then left the wounded animal to wander off to either bleed to death or, in an enraged state, attack another hunter or camper who had no idea they are sharing the woods with five hundred pounds of wounded fury.

"There wasn't any blood trail that they could find," Ross said. "There was a little blood apparently at the spot, but nothing that indicated the bear was hard hit." Nugent and his hunting buddies looked for the bear but didn't find it, Ross said. 

"The bear didn't die. He only took one bear."

Okay now personally I have issues with the whole idea of "Bear baiting" anyhow.  Essentially that is where you put out the Ursine version of a picnic basket and wait for a hungry bear to wander by before shooting it from the safety of a tree blind, while sitting in a comfortable folding chair knocking back a few brewskies.  It is essentially to hunting what Wii Bowling is to sports.

Ross goes on to say that Nugent has hunted in Alaska for years, which of course means he should have known about the law, or perhaps even had the personal integrity to make sure that he did not allow a wounded bear to wander the Alaska wilderness.  But let's face it, Nugent does not exactly respect the laws of our country now does he? Which is why he recently had to explain his veiled threats directed at our President to the Secret Service, and why he also ignores those "crazy" statutory rape laws as well.

You know I have to wonder exactly HOW Nugent came to be represented by Sarah Palin's best buddy Wayne Anthony Ross in the first place? Just how close IS Palin to this confessed pedophile and lawbreaker?

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Update: It appears that the military did not buy Nugent's excuses for making threats against the President. Courtesy of  the Hollywood Reporter:

Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post’s Facebook page.

“After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation," it's Facebook posting says.

Gee, the military is not comfortable having a confessed pedophile, who threatens their Commander-in-Chief, play really bad music for the troops? Who could have guessed?

The head of Joe Miller's security goon squad goes to WAR!

From the Anchorage Press:

William Fulton would not talk to the Press Tuesday, citing legal advice from attorney Wayne Anthony Ross. (One person who answered the phone Tuesday morning at DropZone says Fulton took “millions” of media calls Tuesday. ("Millions of media calls?"  I am guessing that math is not a strong point with these morons either.) Fulton told us Tuesday afternoon he stopped talking to reporters about noon that day.) He has told other news media his company is a contractor but does not operate as a security agency.

WAYNE "FREAKING" ANTHONY ROSS?  Perfect!

Who better to represent this military fetishist and part-time Miller gestapo member than the guy considered so wingnutty, and out of his gourd, that he was rejected by the Republican led Alaska state legislature after Sarah Palin picked him as her choice for Attorney General?

Gee I THOUGHT that bright red Humvee looked familiar.

William Fulton behind "Drop Zone" sitting in a star spangled chair next to WAR's old Hummer.  

Dammit!  I am almost out of popcorn!

BTW I encourage you to read ALL of  the Anchorage Press article, as it is quite informative as well as pretty humorous.