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| Schilling gets $75M state IOU tattooed on his arm |
Sports Makes Politicians Stupid. Speaking of which, Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios has
received another $4.1 million installment on its $75 million Rhode Island loan guarantee. Former Governor Don Carcieri slid this deal for the former Red Sox pitcher through at the end of his term, sticking Gov. Chafee with a project he did not want from a company that has no product to sell. 38 Studios designs online multiplayer video games and hopes to
market its very first game on February 7. It recently announced that it had
signed a deal to produce a second game. As I have reported previously, the
likelihood that the state will get stuck for the $75 million is very high. Even if Schilling’s first game is a big success, it will have to
sell an impossibly high number of games to come close to making the company solvent. But, hey, this is about Sox star pitcher Schilling!
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| OMG! President??? |
Speaking of Stupid, Laffey for President! Just when we all thought we’d never hear from this jerk again, former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey is now becoming a regularly featured political star on GoLocalProv. Laffey had left Rhode Island for Colorado where he was
raising horses and cattle after being whipped in the 2006 Republican Senate primary by then-Senator Lincoln Chafee. But recently, Laffey has been
touring the country with RI Tea Party head Colleen Conley supposedly making a film called “Fixing America.” Laffey has a local cheerleader in GoLocalProv writer Stephen Beale who recently wrote a piece
touting Laffey as a potential Presidential candidate. Given the current field of Republican Presidential hopefuls, Laffey would actually fit right in.
Conley should have stayed home. While she was out gallivanting with Steve Laffey, Conley’s
Rhode Island Tea Party split apart in a factional fight. There are now two state Tea Party groups – the RI Tea Party and the Ocean State Tea Party in Action. The two groups say there’s no cause for alarm, that they still love each other and that they are actually stronger ripping at each other’s throats. The only one who buys that is GoLocalProv’s Stephen Beale.
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| RI Tea Party leader Colleen Conley |
Surprise – Tea Party Is Really Republican. And it took the
New York Times confirm it. The Times did a detailed analysis of the origins and composition of the Tea Party and determined that the vast majority of its members were not frustrated and disaffected independent voters, but actually hardcore conservative religious-right Republicans with a particular interest in taking down the Constitutional wall between church and state and making the United States a Christian nation.
Tea Party Congressional Champions Make Us Proud to Be Americans. Sen. Tom Coburn (Teabag-OK)
joked about shooting his Senate colleagues before a town hall meeting in Oklahoma on Wednesday. "It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor," he said. … Coburn’s Texas House teabagger colleague Louis Gohmert also seems to harbor such thoughts. After the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ),
Gohmert introduced legislation to allow members of Congress to carry concealed weapons anywhere in the District of Columbia, including the floor of the House of Representatives.
So many idiots, so little time.
Author: Will Collette
