God Bless Triumph

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

If this was the actual logo for the Republican Convention I might actually support the Republican Party...

















"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy."

H.P. Lovecraft

"The Call of Cthulhu"

Always Willing To Go Lower

Ah, the RNC is once again up to their old tricks.

What 83 year-old William Sidwell of Queen City, Missouri found in his mailbox last week scared him. It was a letter from the Republican National Committee, but it seemed to bear grave news: "Our records show that you registered as a member of our Party in Schuyler County, MO," the letter said. "But a recent audit of your Party affiliation turned up some irregularities."

Audit? Irregularities? Was he in trouble? Were they threatening him? Sidwell went immediately to his ask his son, Dennis, a licensed public accountant, for advice. You can see the letter, and the accompanying "Voter Registration Verification and Audit Form," right here. Particularly puzzling to the both of them, Dennis told me, is that his father is a life-long Democrat.

The letter, it turns out, is just a misleading pitch for a contribution to the RNC -- one of the "irregularities" cited in the letter is that "I cannot find a record of you taking a single action in support of the Republican Party -- not locally, not nationally!" A contribution, the letter suggests, would help set the record straight.

Doesn't it just warn your inside knowing that the GOP has an outreach program for the elderly? Especially those who have been life long Democrats? This is truly stepping across the aisle in a motion of bi-partisanship.