John Hunt, Bill Stanley, and Erin Bilbray (Clark County Democratic Party Chair, local labor champion and the one person "running the soundboard," and the organizer for the event, respectively) rock!!!!!

Nevada is on the map!

"The state has a large Hispanic population"--why can't you just go ahead and say it, illegals, that's what they are, and the socialist Democrats embrace them because, well because..they do.

And the culinary unions, I don't know what that means, but it sounds communist. Why should they be allowed to attend? Shouldn't they be looking for Jimmy Hoffa's body or something?

And why do you suppose the DemoRats had a primary in a red state? I'll tell you why, because it's shifty Harry Reid's state. And Harry Reid is no Bill Frist, not by a long shot. Bill Frist wrote the book on insider trading. Reid is just an amateur, a cut-and-runner and a confused Mormon. Why confused, you ask? Because, who ever heard of a Mormon Democrat?, doesn't happen.

Anyway, Las Vegas will pay for letting those terrorist-loving, tax-raising, peace-mongering demoRats gather there. That city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions, Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together--mass hysteria, is what it will be.

Jerry White's Brother, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon.

"If Mr. White doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it".

O.K., Nurse Ratched, here give it to me.

dt should know that Democrats aren't holding a caucus in Nevada to attract illegal immigrants to the party. Just a gentle reminder, but they can't attend OUR caucuses or vote in OUR primaries.

That's not to say there isn't a sizeable illegal immigrant population in Las Vegas (there clearly is), but contrary to dt's obviously racist, foaming at the mouth, "one-flew-over-the-cuckoo's-nest" position regarding hispanic voters, there is a sizeable minority of hispanic citizens in this country...and especially in the southwestern states. Since Republicans think they're all illegal, Democrats will warmly welcome them to see a more rational view of the world.

Furthermore, Nevada has more registered Democrats than Republicans and four of the six, statewide, "constitutional" offices in Nevada are held by Democrats. That's not exactly a "red state."

P.S. My two dogs and one cat live together just fine, thank you very much.

Noah..didn't you scold me once before? I guess satire doesn't translate too well in text.

I wouldn't expect you to get the joke out of context, it's directed at regular characters on the Swamp who really think and write this way (many of whom I suspect are certified bigots). I'm not one of them.

Sometimes, the Colbert approach (lampooning someone), is more effective than trying to reason or debate with them head on. The old noggin can only take so much banging against a brick wall.

BTW, I see you got the Cuckoo's Nest reference (sort of), but did you know that the movie was actually filmed at Oregon State Hospital in Salem? And the Mr. White character, it's McMurphy in the movie.

The rest of the rant (including Bill Murray's priceless line of "dogs and cats living together") was an amalgam of quotes borrowed from the movie, "Ghostbusters."

Sorry you took offense, buddy, but you've got me pegged all wrong. I embrace diversity, I'm color blind. I'm neither xenophobic, nor homophobic, nor ethnocentric, nor anti-semitic, nor misogynistic. I'm a progressive (or liberal, if you like), I'm a Democrat and I'm a Teamster. I love the west (including Nevada). I also have something in common with Harry Reid. And, I happen to have two dogs and a cat. Imagine that. So peace, brother, only one more year:

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Obabma was way ahead of himself last night. He thought he was delivering the inaugural address.

Well dt, Noah likes to scold. My children were his patients until quite abruptly this past week or so (without a word, no less, until we received official word today, this should give you an idea as to the manner of person you are speaking with). We were regularly cut-off, spoken to in a condescending manner and even lectured to. It's something of a relief to be free of that now, though I am crushed for his staff, they deserve better. Sad. Best not to take it personally, I suspect it's just his way.
As for satire, it doesn't translate well on the internet, sadly. I love Colbert/Stewart/Murray/Franken et al and have to say, the vocal inflection simply isn't the same when you have to try to imagine what it would be in your head as you're reading it.
As for the Caucus. I wanted very much to go and vote for a Democratic candidate, however, as I generally try to vote for the candidate and not the party, I had registered "Non-Partisan", There are several reasons for this - among them that I can say when I exit the polls that I am non-partisan yet I lean Democrat when I vote. My own mother is registered Republican yet she votes for Democrats EVERY time. She has ALWAYS been an ardent left-wing democrat, so why would she do this? In her words, to mess with their numbers. Is this fair? No. I worked proudly for Sen. Max Baucus in Montana and would again in a heart-beat just as I have volunteered for and cheered on Harry Reid and others here in Nevada, but there have been some local politicians I have been not terribly proud of who have called themselves Democrats - and a few who have been Independent who have won my vote. Republican? Not in a million years. This isn't a question of who is more proud of their country or who is more proud of being a Nevada Democrat - it's a matter of who has a RIGHT to have their voice heard. If we as citizens submit to the paranoia that all of those foreigners will suddenly and without warning want the vote, we might as well build up that Mexican wall higher than the wall in Berlin ever was. Higher than the wall in China. Higher than any other all that's been built to keep one people out and one people in. Higher enough to help us forget our own history - that we're all imigrants, too - and that WE once cheered the tearing-down of a wall - pieces of that wall remain at my alma mater in my department - foreign languages and literature. I'm proud of this - and proud of my heritage as the grandchild of a Russian-Jewish IMMIGRANT *gasp* who had a difficult time learning the language in his late years but still worked hard - was treated poorly because he couldn't speak English as well as he wanted to - but he did try - and because he was Russian he was mistrusted - because he was Jewish he was mistrusted, because he was an IMMIGRANT he was mistrusted - and yet we build walls even now and continue to talk of how accepting we are?
Are we really? Since when?
I didn't see much acceptance in the way of the State of NV holding a Primary that would allow ALL Registered voters to have our voices heard rather than JUST the two parties - imagine what could have happened if ALL Registered voters had been "allowed" the opportunity to vote? We'll never know now, will we? Pity.