NOTE: I was invited to post Town Called Dobson on BlueNC.com after I finished blogging for Roger Sharpe. Now, without warning or reason, today’s strip was banned from the site. I am beginning to feel like I just finished working for the Edwards campaign. Ya know?

UPDATE: I am being told the strip was not banned but “dumped” and I am unsure of the difference. Click here for the full explanation and updates.

UPDATE 2: Looking into this more heavily, the article was totally unavailable from the site, not just pulled from the front page. In effect it was deleted from public view and was viewable only by the admins. It was embargoed to just the admins area until someone, I am still trying to find out details here, turned it back on. Regardless of the verb you use – banned, dumped or the ultra polite embargoed, the effect was the same. It was taken down.

My feeling on this is this seems to be a problem with their software. There was enough Edwards supporters to mod the post down to the point that some internal flag went up and the strip was embargoed. To my knowledge, this was the action of no single person. I hope to find out more later.

UPDATE 3: Ok, today’s issue on BlueNC was of technological origination, not a human intervention. BlueNCer, Lance, has the skinny HERE. The final word is TCD was so popular/hated it got sequestered until human intervention convened. The upside is BlueNC is now so popular, little issues like this pop up.

No one should see BlueNC or its owners or admin as suspicious. I broke the server and shit like this happens. End of story.

Now about that chicken shit Edwards…

Yesterday’s strip was about how John Edwards’ lack of backbone in the whole blogger fiasco brought me back to when Congress was filled with do-nothing Democrats. Feeble and weak these Democrats were and over and over they allowed the Bush Administration to roll over them and then they apologized for being in the way.

The Vatican has been involved in some pretty nasty things, but its recent positions are still horrid. This is a group that is actively seeking to block women from gaining access to birth control, sanctioning Gay bigotry and is against many of the same agenda items that Edwards claims he is for such as stem cell research, reproductive freedom and equality. So why the fuck did he let a slime ball like Bill Donahue get away with the blogger bashing? This is the same guy who wanted to deny John Kerry Communion due to his voting record on pro-choice legislation. It wasn’t like Donahue is analogous to Billy Graham, but more on the side of Oral Roberts.

Yeah, maybe Edwards should have paid closer attention to the bloggers he hired, but it looks like he flat out gave up. Totally caved and left the bloggers to swing.

And I don’t believe the whole resignation story either. The bloggers have been a target of religious right for some time. I get a lot of hate mail due to the strip and what I say in the strip doesn’t come close to the controversial nature of the bloggers’ posts. So this week they have too much heat? Now, all of the sudden they are getting threats? Edwards couldn’t offer protection? Help? Assistance? Other than being shown the door, that was it apparently.

So I just don’t get Edwards. He had a chance to beat down Donahue’s fake rage with four sticks wrapped in barbed wire and he did nothing. Are Democrats still so timid that they can’t bring themselves to criticize a group that wants to outlaw condoms?

I don’t think I will get an apology from Edwards, but the Vatican got theirs.

I’m sorry, I am still sick of do-nothing Democrats. I have had my fill.

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