Panicking Mitch McConnell Says GOP Will Help Hillary Beat Trump If He Wins The Nomination

Keep your eyes peeled, people. Seeing is be believing, no?

Fascinating 2016 election theory, via Addicting Info.Com:

In the most surreal moment in modern American politics, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told panicking Republicans that the GOP would actively destroy Donald Trump’s election chances if it came to that. That rush of warm air you feel on your face? It’s the wave of radiation from the Republican Party’s nuclear meltdown. We’re witnessing the death of a major political party.

More....

 Things are getting truly desperate in conservative camps and the grim acceptance that this isn’t a bad dream and that Trump is almost surely going to win the nomination has begun to set in. It’s led to an odd plan. In a stunning report by the New York Times, Republican sources confirm that party leadership is planning to destroy Trump and give Hillary Clinton the win rather than let him have control of the GOP.

Read up. peeps:

• Panicking Mitch McConnell Says GOP Will Help Hillary Beat Trump If He Wins The Nomination

Keep your eyes peeled, people. Seeing is be believing, no?

It’s The Kochs, Not Republicans Prohibiting A SCOTUS Nominee Vote

Koch Brother Jackasses

Wake up. Here's the skinny:

It’s The Kochs, Not Republicans Prohibiting A SCOTUS Nominee Vote

Wake up, people.

The Evil Koch Brothers should be hobbled, knee-capped and crippled.

Seriously. these ancient and decrepit bastards should already be "out to pasture."

Weirdness in the 2016 Election

We expect there will be another five or six other Senate Republicans who'll jump ship from the crackpot Republicans, along with Kirk and Collins

Surprise of surprises, two vulnerable Republican incumbent US senators can read the way the blue state polling winds are blowing, and are breaking from the rest of their twisted fascist party, over blocking President Obama's eventual Supreme Court nominee.

• Senators Mark Kirk and Susan Collins are first break in Republican dam of Supreme Court obstruction

We expect there will be another five or six other Blue or Purple State Senate Republicans who'll jump ship from the crackpot Republicans, along with Kirk and Collins.

And so, What SAY YOU. lol?

Standard-Examiner: 14-year old Ogden-based Folk Prodigy Hitting it Big

Whoa!  Check out the lede, Peeps:

OGDEN — By all indications, Sammy Brue’s musical career is on a major upward trajectory.
Brue, 14, of Ogden, is an up-and-coming folk/Americana singer-songwriter who last year released his fist EP, “I Don’t Want You To Leave.” On his website,, the recording is described as one that “touch(es) on heartbreak, jealousy, God and suicide.”
Since the release, Brue has been featured in magazines like Rolling Stone and American Songwriter and has played well-known, long-established music festivals like the Newport Folk Festival and Summerfest. He’s sponsored by The Loar Guitars and is said to be close to a deal with high-profile record label.

Here's the full skinny on this story, via The Ogden Standard-Examiner's Mitch Shaw.

• Ogden-based folk prodigy and 14-year-old Sammy Brue hitting it big

And here are a few more classy samples of Mr. Brue's musical work so far: 

• Sammy Brue - Musical Samples 

Good luck with your budding musical career, Sammy Brue!

Breaking: Jeb Bush drops out of White House race

It's official::

• Jeb Bush drops out of White House race

Jackass Senator Cruz is licking his chops.

Utah School Superintendent Brad Smith Resigns After a Year-and-a half in Office

Former Ogden School Board Superintent Jackass Resigns; quits his fatcat Job, after 18 months.

• Utah school superintendent Brad Smith resigns after a year in office

"I'm not fit for this job," the retiring weakling State School Board Chief readily admits.

Thanks for helping to clear out the Trash, we say, Mr. Smith, you stupid and incompetent bastid.

House Stops Move to Undo ‘Count My Vote’ Compromise

Via Count my Vote: "We applaud the Utah House of Representatives for keeping their word and standing up for election reform. All Utah voters should have a voice in our elections"

The Trib has the full writeup. Here's the lede:

The Utah House quashed a move Wednesday that would have erased a 2-year-old compromise about how political parties pick their nominees.
By a 42-30 margin, representatives defeated an amendment that would have allowed parties to select their nominees by any method they choose. The Utah Republican Party has been suing to seek that power and overturn SB54, passed two years ago.

Read up, Peeps:

• House stops move to undo ‘Count My Vote’ compromise

And who's the asshat who advanced the amendment which was defeated on Wednesday?

"Rep. Justin Fawson, R-North Ogden, proposed the amendment to a bill that sought a "minor" (hahaha) change to how alternate delegates for conventions are chosen."
"I did run on a platform of preserving the caucus-convention" system, he said, adding he was elected after the SB54 compromise was enacted.

Yes. Weber County Forum also applauds the Utah House of Representatives. As for this Justin Fawson person... This dolt is now on our Weber County Forum political "hit list."

Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead at West Texas Ranch

More wretched news for wretched crackpot Republicans:

• Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch

God bless America.

Update 2/13/16 5:00 p.m.:

• Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress

This is much more accurate, wethinks!

Hitler Reacts to Ted Cruz

Fascinating comparison No?

• Ted Cruz/Adolf Hitler Speech comparison

Laugh your arses off, peeps.

Mises.Com: If You Want Bigger Government, Vote Republican

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So, is a vote for the GOP a vote for less government spending, more fiscal restraint, and "personal responsibility???" It's hard to see how one could possibly construe that from the historical record.

Read up, Weber County Forum voters:

• If You Want Bigger Government, Vote Republican

And don't be a political dumbass. Do NOT EVER vote Republican... unless you wish to be a slave to the evil Koch Brothers.

The Folly of ‘Taking Back’ Federal Lands

Awesome article via AdventureJournal.Com ...
 Read the "money quote," my fellow Utahns!

Anyone who wonders what Western states would do with U.S. land should consider what they’ve already done with it. In exchange for relinquishing all claims on public property, new states were awarded “trust lands.” Trust lands have generally been used to create revenue via oil and gas extraction, logging, mining, and outright sale.
For example, of Nevada’s original 2.7 million acres of trust land only 3,000 acres remain. In Colorado you can fish and camp on virtually all federal land and hunt on most. But you can’t hunt, fish or camp on most state land because it’s reserved for extractive industry.

Here's the link, beneath this marvellous article:

• The Folly of ‘Taking Back’ Federal Lands

Assuming you can read and comprehend... please do so.

Republicans are Morons, No? LOL

Read it and weep, American Conservationists

Top-notch cranky letter from highly articulate Standard-Examiner reader, Pam Wixom.  She's one smart gal, and she well frames the issues regarding the ongoing federal land-grab, naming names and clobbering this whole Koch Bothers backed effort to bribe all Republican to turn over all Utah Public Lands to the politically satanic Koch Brothers. Read up, peeps!

• Bishop, Chaffetz orchestrating a land grab on behalf of the oil industry

More...

•  Beyond the Bundys: The Far Right and the Future of Conservation

Read it and weep!

Longtime Weber County Employee Jim Harvey Files as Commissioner Candidate

Vote wisely in November, PEEPS!

Too Kewl!!!  With another election looming in November of this year, it looks like we already have a battle royal pending in the 2016 Weber County Commission race:

OGDEN — A familiar face in Weber County just threw his hat into the political ring.
Ogden resident Jim Harvey filed his intent to run as County Commissioner, challenging one-term incumbent Matthew Bell....

Both Bell and Harvey are Republicans, so the intraparty challenge could ignite this year’s primary season in Weber County. Both candidates have declared their intent to gather signatures, a new path to the primary that is currently being challenged in federal court. Both also intend to tread the traditional caucus/convention trail to try to secure their party's nomination.

Read up Peeps!

• Longtime Weber County employee Jim Harvey files as commissioner candidate

Vote wisely, People!

Bob Bernick's Notebook: Republican Candidates Really Like SB54

Hahahahaha, yes?

Fascinating story via UtahPolicy.com:  Here's the lede:

Guess who is using SB54’s new dual-track process to get on their political party’s primary ballot in 2016?
Republicans.
Especially Republican incumbents in the Utah House and Senate.
In fact, when I checked Thursday afternoon on the Utah Elections website, out of the 70 folks who have signed up for the petition route, all but one were Republicans.
The lone Democrat is gubernatorial candidate Vaughn Cook.

Read up, Peeps!

• Bob Bernick's Notebook: Republican Candidates Really Like SB54

Hahahahaha, yes?

Smirk.

Breaking: Crackpot Board of Education Superintendent Takes 90-day Leave Due To Admitted Sickness, Board Immediatly Names Replacement

Via the Standard-Examiners; Ace Reporter, Taylor Hintz:

Utah State Board of Education superintendent Brad Smith is taking a 90-day leave of absence to address health concerns, according to a statement from the board.
“We wish Brad all the best while he is away,” Board of Education Chari David Crandall said in a statement.
Deputy Superintendent Sydnee Dickson has been named acting State Superintendent of Public Instruction, with Rich K. Nye, associate superintendent of data, assessment and accountability being named as deputy superintendent.

• Board of Education superintendent takes 90-day leave, board names replacement

Although some internet mystics would call this situation more evidence of "Bad Karma," we'll just wish the poor bastard well.

Breaking: Former Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey Called as LDS Mission President - Updated

Alternate headline: Crazed and Annoying Mormon Polititian gets shipped off to "Virtual Siberia."

Here's the lede, peeps:

OGDEN — Former Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey has been called to be a mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He will serve for three years as president of the church's Peru Lima North Mission in South America.
Godfrey will take over as leader of the mission from current President John Erickson on July 1 and will oversee dozens of missionaries and supervise the church's missionary work in the area.

And NO.  We are not making this up.

• Former Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey called as LDS mission president

Sadly there seem to be no LDS missions "off earth" or even in Antarctica.  Congrats to the Mormon Church however, for finding a place where "Elder" Boss Godfrey can do no further harm.

Update 1/9/16 10:00 a.m.: The Standard's Dana Ribington fleshes out yesterdy's D-News story, filling in important details which reporter Morgan Wilkins left out:

• Former Ogden mayor Matthew Godfrey surprised by mission president call

Happy New Year, Weber County Forum Clones!

Dang rights, WCF regulars... experience all the merriment and mirth!

Happy 2016, WCF clones.  Our advice as we inexorably creep up on the year of our Year of the Lord 2016?

A. Don't celebrate like this.  It's a mite inelegant, wethinks:

• Jim Carry Goes Wild on New Years Eve

B. And YES! here's a nice 2015 retrospective folks, designed to allow you to "kiss off" the year 2015, with nary a tear in your eye:

• Dave Barry’s 2015 Year in Review

Dang rights, WCF regulars... experience all the merriment and mirth!

The Hill: Chrome Extension Scrubs Trump From The Web

Just a helpful technology tip from yer old pal, Rudi!

Encouraging technological news via the politically ambiguous TheHill.Com. Tired of the "saturation reporting" on The Donald from everyone from the NY Tims to the Cartoon Network?  We have an encouraging story, peeps.  Here's the lede:

Americans tired of the media fixation on real estate mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump have a new tool at their disposal, courtesy of a Brooklyn web developer.
The Trump Filter extension for Chrome, created by Rob Spectre and spotted by US News this week, will remove content on the web related to the Republican front-runner's candidacy. It includes three levels of sensitivity: “mild,” “aggressive,” and “vindictive.”
The extension, which was released last week, detected Trump-related headlines on a range of news sites and removed them when tested by The Hill. It also eliminated some non-Trump related content while on the "aggressive" setting.

Read up!

• Chrome extension scrubs Trump from the web

Just a helpful technology tip from yer old pal, Rudi!

Obama: Happy Christmas, Everyone

Merry Christmas, peeps! Nobody but our hero, Barry O, could possibly say it better in so many ways, we do swear:

• Here's a Video of President Obama Saying "Merry Christmas" Over and Over and Over

Let us @ Weber County Forum adopt these messages and simply say,Happy Christmas, everyone!

For Republicans, Bigotry is the New Normal

Check your party registration, Sane Utah Republicans

Top-notch Wapo OpEd, submitted for re-publication via long-time WCF reader/contributor Ozboy.  "An interesting editorial in today's Washington Post, about Republican perfidy.  Might make a good piece for the WCF," the ever politically savvy Ozboy sez, in a rare instance of understatement.  Wethinks Ozboy doth not steer us wrong however. Check it out, folks:

• For Republicans, bigotry is the new normal

Added bonus:  Ozboy also submits this additional gem for your consideration, folks:

• Wash. Post Editorial Board Slams GOP's Embrace Of "Bigotry, Hatred and Magical Thinking"

Media Matters "nails it" in summary, wethinks:

Fear-mongering and raw xenophobia were once the hallmarks of fringe candidates. Today the fringe candidates have stormed center stage, brandishing their zeal and hyperbole and, disturbingly, dragging the mainstream along with them.

Check your party registration, Gentle Utah Republicans, now that the American GOP has become the official party of fascism and hatred.