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August 1, 2011 by amglolz

Only sissies can object to LePage’s tantrums, right?

Governor LePage, as everyone reading this site surely knows, spent some time last week yelling at reporters for sport.

Argggh, he said, summoning his inner Voldermort, you cretins lie about me! It makes me so angry! You don’t ask for my side! Why don’t you bother calling me sometime, so I can once again refuse to comment! Then you can run stories that just have long blank white spaces where my statements would be, if I made them! Arggh! It is so unfair that you print things despite my decision not to say anything about them! Oh, and did I mention you’re all liars?

On AMG this went down just dandy. They don’t care that he 1) was needlessly angry and berating on camera, and 2) was actually incorrect and, some would say, lying, because of course all the news agencies called his office for comment and were told that the Governor would not be available.

Who cares about that stuff? The lamestream media deserves it. And yes, someone on AMG did actually say ”lamestream” media.

Melvin Udall went above and beyond the call of duty, as always, showering his fellow angry old man Governor with praise and insisting that anyone who thought his raised voice, finger pointing, and invasions of personal space qualified as a tantrum-esque were just sissies:

EI (and Numbnutz): If you consider LePage’s taped moment “a tantrum,” you must have had parents that praised you when you pooped your pants or broke a glass or spilled a half-gallon of milk.

Uh-huh. Or, we had parents who praised us when we didn’t blame the lamestream media, or anyone else but ourselves, for pooping our pants.

The fact is, LePage pooped his proverbial pants on camera and he’s trying to blame it on everyone but himself.

The thread then devolves, as so many do, into Naran defending anything an everything the Governor’s administration does, thinks, argues, says, considers, and breathes. She links to another lamestreamer, Steve Mistler, who wrote a news piece wondering where is all the evidence of voter fraud we have heard so much about. So far, all we’ve got is a list from Charlie Webster of 206 people who might have been paying out of state tuition while voting in Maine, which is not illegal or fraudulent at all, but that doesn’t seem to bother anyone on AMG.

Oh, and the head of the Maine College Republicans voted in Maine despite not meeting the high Charlie Webster standard of legality. I have seen very little discussion of that little factoid. Shocking, I know.

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July 21, 2011 by amglolz

Department of Marine Resources chief resigns, and says things are even worse than you imagined.

Normon Olsen, Governor LePage’s appointment to head the Department of Maine Resources, resigned yesterday.

Today he published a scathing letter explaining his decision.

It turns out that anyone with wild accusations could get an audience with the Governor, but Olsen, a cabinet member, could not. The Governor directed Olson to make certain constituents happy or he would be fired by Labor Day, but wouldn’t name the constituents.

Worst of all, when Olson finally did get a meeting with LePage to discuss plans regarding Marine Resources he discovered a petulant, petty Governor who, among other things, ordered that Olsen not collaborate with Portland in bringing back groundfish boats because Portland was against LePage. LePage said he would rather build a port somewhere else.

Refusing to help Maine’s largest city because it voted against him. Nice.

The letter really is a must read. It shocked me, and I already had some amazingly low expectations about LePage’s day-to-day behavior. Even I wouldn’t have expected LePage explicitly direct a cabinet member to not engage in job-creating activities merely because those job-creating activities involved a city that did not vote for him.

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

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July 13, 2011 by amglolz

Mark T. Cenci, a man so far afield it makes me cringe.

There is a lot going on on AMG right now (although, I must say, very little discussion about the Republican party currently risking the destruction of our economy by playing chicken with the full faith and credit of the United States) and while I do not have much time for a full review, I thought this comment by Mr. Mark T. Cenci, Geologist Extraordinaire, was so cringeworthy it must be noted.

Speaking of the Republican bill to disallow qualified Maine citizens from voting, not for any substantive reason, but only because they did not meet the arbitrary registration deadline, Mr. Cenci stated that such reform was very tame and proposed his own ideas:

The tamest of tame reforms.

I advocate requiring only tax paying voters to pass an intelligence exam before voting.

That would keep Domino at home on election day, for sure.

What we should do is arrange our voting like a publicly held corporation. That way, the people paying the most would have more voting shares than the lay-abouts.

Let taxed corporations vote too.

First, Mark insults the intelligence of someone else because of their political views. Nice. Disclaimer: I insult the intelligence of AMGers for stupid things they say, not political views. There are very smart libertarians! Mark is simply not one of them.

After the obligatory random insult, Mark moves on to his core mission: turning himself even more into a cartoon character than he already is. He suggests making votes count more for different people depending on how much they are taxed.

Yes, Mark, lets weigh votes by earnings. People who make more money should get more “share” in the vote, he suggests. Sounds like a great scheme.

Ironically, this would exclude a helluva lot of Tea Party persons. And give Portlanders probably twice as much voting power as they already have. Rural Maine would have very little say anymore. But hey, did you expect Mark would think something through?

Letting corporations vote is a craptastic idea, too. Money seems to be the only thing that matters in Mark’s world. Worse ideas are hardly published so publicly, but Mark seems hellbent on proving to the world that he has no sense of shame.

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June 1, 2011 by amglolz

Tom C Returns!

Stop all the blog presses! The most amazing thing has happened.

AMGLOLZ favorite “Tom C” has returned to As Maine Goes. And in quite the same way he left it, I might add: completely bat-shit crazy with a sprinking of irrational anger.

I will let a quote from AMGer John Chapman explain the majesty of Tom C:

You [Tom C] are quick to prejudge people you have never met, based on happenings you have never seen, in places you have never been. You are frequently wrong, despite “cherry picking” cases that appeal to media wonks at first blush. That is because the term “fact” means something different to you than it does to most.

Tom C is awesome. He likes to accuse cops of murder based on internet conspiracy theories. And he never, ever backs down no matter how silly or precarious his prior assertions become.

In the current thread, he is still arguing that a man was wrongly accused by corrupt Maine police of trying to murder a hospital administrator. This guy was caught shooting near the hospital, with the gun, and his Mom said he was planning to kill the victim. What does Tom C think?

Oh, the dude was just squirrel hunting.

Bravo!

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May 4, 2011 by amglolz

AMG’s extremists can’t admit Obama killed Bin Laden

Imagine this:

You have come to believe that the President is a Marxist Muslim liar. He is not only evil, but so clever that he has managed to get elected by tens of millions of your fellow Americans despite his obvious satanic tendencies and continues to remain President despite his illegitimacy.

And now he is claiming credit for killing the single most hated enemy of America.

This is a problem. How does one maintain an image of Obama’s evilness alongside his decisive move to not only kill Bin Laden, but to do it in a way that provided proof of his death? And, not to mention, selflessly put his entire Presidency at risk?

Here is one way. Spread disgusting rumors that Obama didn’t actually give the order.

A small slice of the craziness:

When 48 hour go order issued, CoC was told, not requested. Administration scrambled to abort. That order was overruled. This order did not originate from CoC. …(Obama) complied, but did not originate.

Independent military contacts have confirmed. Stories corroborate one another.

The killing of Osama Bin Laden was in fact a Coup within Obama WH.

While John Frary writes hilariously bad fluff posts about the alleged hatred of Paul LePage (rather than, say, profound disagreement with his policies and actions) we have others on AMG saying plainly that Obama deserves no credit for the government’s action against Bin Laden because he literally had nothing to do with it. The “proof” is written by a birther theory proponent and sourced to unnamed “insiders.”

Hey, Frary, why not write indignantly about the vast array of falsehoods spread on your favorite website about the President?

Hey, Naran, why not spend your day correcting these allegations with the same fervor that drives you to challenge every Press Herald commentator who disagrees with the Governor?

Any website that let’s these sorts of things go unchallenged doesn’t even represent most of the Republican party, much less Maine.

AMG is a so fascinating because it is so unabashedly stupid. LarryB proves this with his assertion:

Seems the reports on Obama’s indecision in this matter are gaining traction…

http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/05/03/did-the-u-s-military-act-on-its-o…

The Post and Email? He seriously just sourced something called “The Post and Email” as proof this hogwash is “gaining traction.” Someone earlier in the thread at least sources the Daily Mail in the UK as evidence, which, although known as “The Daily Fail” in England due to its tabloid nature, is at least a real newspaper!

There is, of course, no mention of Obama being attacked during the 2008 election by his Republican opponent for saying that he would disregard borders and cross into Pakistan to kill Bin Laden if he got the chance. The brave and decisive Republican candidate declared that such a choice would be disrespectful to our great friends and allies, Pakistan, who after all are a sovereign country. Presumably McCain would have simply asked the Pakistani army to drive their jeeps over from the military base less than a mile away from Bin Laden’s not-so-hidden million dollar compound and politely ask him to go for a ride and work things out.

I wonder what would have happened then? I’m sure AMG would be praising McCain’s allegiance to international law.

Because AMG won’t, let me state what 80% of America is thinking right now: Thank you Mr. President.

Don’t mind the clowns. Keep doing your job.

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April 29, 2011 by amglolz

LePage reelection slogan?

Although Phil “Fully Vetted” Congden is out of a job due to his racist comments…. Err, I mean, “personnel issues….” He might have left one parting gift for the Governor.

From the Lewiston Sun-Journal:

Philip Congdon says when he made remarks that led to complaints from Aroostook County residents, “I thought I was talking to people who were sufficiently intelligent to understand my real meaning. I was mistaken.”

That sounds like a perfect slogan for LePage’s reelection campaign. Does anyone have a bumper sticker machine?

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April 27, 2011 by amglolz

Birtherism Reborn

I don’t have time to do this justice. I apologize. But the new birther thread is spectacular.

Obama released his original, long-form birth certificate today. Shockingly this isn’t appeasing the nutcases:

I was just going to say the same thing. First the liberals proclaimed that the “long form” birth certificate didn’t exist. Scores of reporters from the Obama controlled media then went to Hawaii, conducted “investigations”, proving that there was nothing suspect. Then suddenly, he releases a birth certificate that was never found before, the form of which doesn’t match other birth certificates from the same day, and has a registrar signature that’s already raising questions.

First, who said it didn’t exist? No one of importance I am aware of. Hawaii said the opposite. Obama never said it didn’t exist.

Second, “he releases a birth certificate that was never found before” in any “investigations” is bullshit. These are private records in Hawaii. Only the person on the certificate can request it. So any investigator, short of breaking into a Hawaii government office and stealing the certificate, isn’t going to find it. All they do is hang around on the beach and find the old newspaper citations that everyone already knows about. I can’t believe I have to explain this. It seems so simple and yet it continues….

Just one look at what Obama released today draws suspicion. Does it really look like something from 1961? It could have been typed up last night at Kennebunk Town Hall for all we know.

Ah yes, the “Does a guy from Maine anonymously on the internet think a thing looks like something he would imagine from 1961″ test. A well known procedure of immense reputation! Who would believe a sworn statement of officials in Hawaii when the document fails such a prestigious test of authenticity?

Some people are even claiming that releasing the long-form this late shows that is is fake, because the real one would have come out sooner. But think about it- this means that there is absolutely nothing Obama can do to prove his case. Release it? Proves it is a fake. Don’t release it? Proves he doesn’t have it. Conspiracy theory logic at its finest.

Here’s the deal: It was released because Trump has tried to mainstream the issue. Obama didn’t address it earlier because no one gives a shit what you and your online pal from Boise, Idaho, with whom you discuss your birther theories in between World of Warcraft dungeons, think about anything. Addressing it would only give it some semblance of credibility.

Letting the issue fester at a low level is politically advantageous because it makes Republicans have to choose whether to offend their base or offend reality. It makes them appear nutty, thus helping the Democrats.

But an increasing portion of right-wingers are poor judges of credibility and so the issue has grown. Now Obama puts out the long-form. The nuts will keep going, requiring Republicans to plainly pick sides in the base versus reality war. Either way, the D’s win.

Keep it up!

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March 29, 2011 by amglolz

Michelle Anderson pleads: Mr. President, please look at the situation from Gaddafi’s point of view.

Michelle Anderson, who frankly has seem restrained of late, is back in fine form.

Whenever the President gives a speech she creates an “on the couch” thread, which is basically her writing down her train (crash) of thought in real time.

When Bush was President this led to pages and pages of glowing, exuberant praise for the guy who had the balls to stand up to the liberal elites.

Now that Obama is in charge, well, things aren’t quite so rosy.

Nearly every cheeky comment is based on completely erroneous assumptions about the world, but the part that really stuck out to me was when she asked Obama to look at things from the point of view of Libya’s despotic, insane ruler.

It was a very vague “explanation” of what he’s doing there. Where is evidence of genocide in Libya? It’s not genocide when an army puts down a rebellion, as I imagine Obama would realize if he mentally put the shoe on the other foot.

Holy crap! Did you see that!

But before we get too far ahead, let us note that the underlying assumption is not correct. Obama didn’t say Libya is genocide. He discussed Rwanda and Bosnia, which were genocides, but Libya was merely a “massacre.”

These people aren’t being killed because they are a certain ethnic group, but only because they want to be free. Think of them as Libya’s Tea Party!

But back to Michelle’s “shoe on the other foot” quote: what the hell???

A Tea Party ideologue, who in theory, at least, reveres our revolutionary founding fathers, thinks if Libya wants to murder thousands of oppressed citizens to put down a rebellion, what’s the fuss? You can’t make this stuff up.

The people of Eastern Libya were going to be slaughtered. Lots of them. And I have zero doubt that Michelle would then have attacked Obama for letting a rampage happen. Nice work Mr. Peace Prize, she would say. Poor leadership. Liberal waffling, afraid to use our military. Weak-stomached appeaser.

And having the cognitive dissidence and plain old gall to tell Obama to try walking a mile in Gaddafi’s shoes- wow, Just wow. She is literally so reflexively against anything Obama does that she is siding with the dictator, the one who harbored Pan Am bombing terrorists.

I want to say it again: Michelle Anderson is siding with terrorists.

I wish I could summon the ghost of Ronald Reagan, because I’m pretty sure on this one we would agree. The Gipper wouldn’t side with Gaddafi. He’d rip Michelle a new one, and then he and I would go have a burger and talk about these strange times.

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