The Nightowl Newswrap

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Welcome to the national stage, @PaulRyanVP. Get used to the sort of treatment that Sister Sarah and the tea-folk who followed pioneered.

You don't get to whine about incivility when we have video of you and Glenn Beck blowing one another and asserting that progressivism is a cancer on our society.

Now you can say you've seen everything -- and mean it. Trent Franks is running for the Senate in Arizona, and saying on the campaign trail that he wishes the Seventeenth Amendment would be repealed. That is the one that provides for the direct election of Senators by popular vote.

If you don't have affairs, you don't have to create fake identities and then kill them off to get out of them. A Naval Officer learned that lesson the hard way and it cost him his command just a week after getting it and probably his entire career.

You've come a long way, baby! Tammy Smith, 49, became the first openly gay woman to ascend to flag rank in the US Army in a promotion ceremony on Sunday. Just to show how far we've come, her first star was pinned to her uniform by her wife, Tracey Hepner.

Rep. Joe Walsh owes the entire Muslim-American community an apology. The deranged and hysterical Illinois congressman and deadbead dad clutched his pearls and fell on the fainting couch last week, telling an audicence that radical Muslims are in the U-S-of-A and they are plotting and scheming and trying every day to kill us all --and they're probably twirling their moustaches, too, just for the villain effect. He made his intemperate remarks after a Mosque in Joplin Missouri was burned to the ground, and a few days before a 51-year-old man was arrested for firing two shots from a pellet gun at a Mosque in his district. I don't think I need to point out to the people who read this blog that you never hear about Muslim radicals shooting up Christian congregations or burning down Baptist churches.

Nor are Muslims targeting Christian schools with IEDs. That happened Sunday night in a Chicago suburb, too. I'm not blaming Joe Walsh, but I am blaming the hatred that he and his ilk have whipped up among the ignorant masses, and I am saying that every last one of them has blood on his or her hands.

Another day, another shooting. Three people are dead after a shooting in College Station, TX just near the campus of Texas A&M. The shooting occurred as a county constable attempted to serve an eviction notice. The constable, the resident and an innocent bystander all died and a woman was wounded and in serious condition.

Apparently the shooting just blocks from his Alma Mater was enough to rattle Governor Gun Nut Rick Perry -- who famously shot a coyote on his morning jog a while back -- when interviewed by the local news to get his comments on the tragedy broke with the NRA and said that states should have the right to reguate guns as they see fit, up to and including wholesale bans.

CBS calls Romney's lies what they are -- lies. Too bad the folks at 60 Minutes didn't check with the fact-checkers before that sickening love fest Sunday night. Liberal media my firm white ass.

How the hell does he figure? Weeper Boehner said on Monday -- and I swear on my grandmother's eyes I am not making this up -- that President Obama is personally responsible for the worst drought in over 50 years that is affecting over half the country.

Obviously the franchise should be limited, because there are almost 0.7 cases of in-person voter fraud every year in every state.

The good news is that half of the debates will be moderated by women -- the last time a woman moderated a presidential debate was 20 years ago -- the bad news is, one of them is Candy Crowley and neither one of them is Amy Goodman.

...and finally, a little midnight-music. You know what makes me feel really, really old? Madness played for the Freakin' Queen.