So let’s get this straight.

When 3 white supremacists are arrested with high powered rifles after bragging that they wanted to kill Barack Obama it’s just a minor meth bust because their threats were merely “aspirational“.

On the other hand, protest at the Republican National Convention and you’re a “terrorist“.

If you had the good fortune not to watch the convention tonight you missed an extremely white display of blind hatred, naked greed, and willful ignorance.

And that’s what blows my mind.  How these people take what is bad, twisted, and shameful about human nature and celebrate it.

They are Cthulhu worshippers-

As you may know by now, I’m not a kumbaya type and I’m telling you that in a just world these people would not only be out of power, their party as dead as the Whigs, Federalists, Know-nothings, and Anti-Masons; they would be locked up as punishment for their crimes and to prevent any further damage to society.

Hate ’em?  The fires of hell are like glaciers.

Sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic.

So today we have learned that The Republican National Convention has been virtually canceled.  Have they at long last found a sense of decency?

• Until this moment, Senator, I think I never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.

No, This is not a diary about Palin.

I’m tempted to chastise them simply for depriving me of some amusingly lame television. W, it turns out, is too COWARDLY to face even his own convention on his personal tribute night.  What is there to say really?  The CRAVEN AND TRAITOROUS BAND of THIEVES AND CUTTHROATS that is his party equally desires to distance themselves from his taint and stain on history and is going to cancel the whole convention and slink away.

AND W is going to TEXAS so that after he ‘concerns the nations’ on Monday night about the terrible terrrible tragedy of Gustav and the need to drill, drill, drill everywhere so we’re not so dependent on Gulf (of Mexico) oil.

Gotta get that plywood up in Crawford.  Help out.  Heh.

I thought we should have a round up of ctrenta’s excellent reporting from last week’s DNC convention in Denver-

• Reporting from Denver for Docudharma
  
  Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 07:31:38 PDT

• DNC Convention, Day One Recap (Part I): Falun Gong, Joe & Mika, CNN Grill, and Andrea Mitchell
  
  Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 20:47:08 PDT

• DNC Convention, Day one recap (Part II): The scene under The Big Tent, PUMA gossip
  
  Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 22:06:19 PDT

• Update: Blue Dog party shuts out Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, and Jane Hamsher despite credential
  
  Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 07:05:12 PDT
  
  (note: This one got linked by SadlyNo)

• Day two at the DNC
  
  Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 08:15:12 PDT

• More Outrage from Denver: ABC News producer arrested for taking pictures in public.
  
  Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 15:32:14 PDT

• IT’S OFFICIAL! BARACK OBAMA IS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!
  
  Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 16:20:55 PDT

• Day three of the DNC Convention
  
  Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 22:12:03 PDT

• Belated slideshow from day three at the DNC: Biker standoff with Denver Police
  
  Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 00:37:52 PDT

• Day four at the DNC: The grand finale
  
  Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 01:38:40 PDT

I want to personally thank ctrenta for all the work and I hope all of you had a chance to enjoy it.

There are people who don’t think that I’m a cold hearted killer of a partisan Democrat.  They are mistaken.

My motivation is my conviction that the radical, social democratic parts of my political agenda are more likely to come to pass under a party that at least espouses some claim to the principles this nation was founded on and can perhaps be shamed in to action on the most egregious offenses.

I believe that the most efficient way to create an atmosphere where that can happen is to permanently eradicate the Republican Party root and branch and make the “conservative” brand a mark of Cain.  Biblical destruction, sowing of salt in the fields, their lamentations music to our ears.

Dead as the Whigs.

It may be that we will have to suffer under 8 or 16 years of Democratic Party failure too, but at least it will be Democratic Party failure and not a frog march into the dustbin of history.

I expect massive disappointment at best.

The struggle will be to create a democratic wing that is strong enough to fly on it’s own, and it’s just not yet.  The environment needs to get better.

It is no secret that I think we need change in the Corporate Media Culture of Washington D.C..  Sally Quinn and Tim Russert deserve the judgement of history on their complicity, but nobody lives forever.  Things can change and they are changing.  People don’t buy the bullshit so much anymore, look at the ranking of “journalists” in any credibility poll.

Right there with Congress.

So better Democrats and Rachel Maddow, that all you got ek?

It’s a start.  We need to build on this success.

Most of all we need to keep our eye on the goal and it will be hard because we’re a long way away.  It’s certainly not going to end in November.

Just a heads up, but if you want some fun tune into MSNBC where  Chris is having trouble talking over the demonstrators.

Couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole.

My favorite chant is- “Do your job!”

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Caroline.

My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, it is so wonderful to be here.

And nothing – nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight.

I have come here tonight to stand with you to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to elect Barack Obama president of the United States.

As I look ahead, I am strengthened by family and friendship. So many of you have been with me in the happiest days and the hardest days. Together we have known success and seen setbacks, victory and defeat.

But we have never lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world. And I pledge to you – I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great test.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

For me this is a season of hope – new hope for a justice and fair prosperity for the many, and not just for the few – new hope.

And this is the cause of my life – new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American – north, south, east, west, young, old – will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.

We can meet these challenges with Barack Obama. Yes, we can, and finally, yes, we will.

Barack Obama will close the book on the old politics of race and gender and group against group and straight against gay.

And Barack Obama will be a commander in chief who understands that young Americans in uniform must never be committed to a mistake, but always for a mission worthy of their bravery.

We are told that Barack Obama believes too much in an America of high principle and bold endeavor, but when John Kennedy called of going to the moon, he didn’t say it’s too far to get there. We shouldn’t even try.

Our people answered his call and rose to the challenge, and today an American flag still marks the surface of the moon.

Yes, we are all Americans. This is what we do. We reach the moon. We scale the heights. I know it. I’ve seen it. I’ve lived it. And we can do it again.

There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we will reach our destination – not merely victory for our party, but renewal for our nation.

And this November the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans, so with Barack Obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause. The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.