Second Amendment Hero plans to be next CA Gov, despite extensive criminal record

Raw Story: One of the four gubernatorial candidates introduced to at the California Republican state party’s semi-annual convention last week spent a decade in prison for convictions for voluntary manslaughter and assault with intent to commit rape, according to the LA Times.

Speaking before hundreds of delegates and supporters, Glenn Champ, 48, did not directly address colorful history, choosing instead to explain, “In my life, I’ve been held accountable because of my stupidity. I do not want anyone else to be enslaved because of their lack of knowledge.”

Champ was one of four candidates speaking at the convention – introduced by party chairman Jim Brulte – speaking between leading GOP gubernatorial candidates, former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari, and state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County.

Champ’s criminal history is extensive. Court records show that he pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed firearm in 1992. In 1993, he was convicted of two counts of assault with intent to commit rape and was placed on the state’s sex-offender registry.

In March 1998, he accepted a plea deal on a charge of loitering to solicit a prostitute. In the same year he pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge after hitting a man with his vehicle, and was sentenced to 12 years in state prison.

You don’t have to worry though, because he loves Jesus and that makes everything OK. He also loves him some guns and thinks that his past, combined with that love of firearms, makes him the perfect Second Amendment Hero candidate. “I know what the criminal mind thinks, and I know how it works and I know how to stop it, and that’s something [other politicians] don’t get,” he told an interviewer. See, if what want to stop criminals, you have to think like a criminal — and Champs experience in this area is exhaustive.

Let’s run a little thought experiment. Let’s say that everything about Champ was absolutely the same, except he was African-American and a Democrat. How do you think the rightwing blogosphere would respond? That’s right, he’d be a thug and a gangbanger and the worst thing ever!! Likely secretly Muslim and a terrorist sympathizer to boot.

Hell, they’d probably take up a collection to fly George Zimmerman out there to Stand His Ground against him, after chasing Champ version Two-Point-Black around the neighborhood for a while.

But this guy? Candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor and not a peep. Seems the right is fine with thugs and goons, so long as they’re not made up, are white, and are Republican.

Earth to gay marriage opponents: It’s over. You lose

Washingto Post: Half of all Americans believe that gay men and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll in which a large majority also said businesses should not be able to deny serving gays for religious reasons.

Fifty percent say the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection gives gays the right to marry, while 41 percent say it does not.

Beyond the constitutional questions, a record-high 59 percent say they support same-sex marriage, while 34 percent are opposed, the widest margin tracked in Post-ABC polling.

It’s important to note that the number of people who say they support marriage equality is higher than the percentage who say the Constitution requires it. If you believe that the right to marry is written into the Constitution, you can still be grudgngly homophobic; i.e., “OK, you win. It’s a constitutional right. But I still don’t have to like it.” That a huge majority supports marriage equality — despite the fact that they don’t all believe it’s a constitutional right — says a lot about the acceptance of the LGBT community at large.

But the holdouts are Republicans. Greg Sargent notes, “opposition to gay marriage among Republicans seems to be concentrated among the Tea Party. According to the Post polling team, Republicans and GOP-leaning independents who support the Tea Party oppose gay marriage by 54-38. By contrast, non-Tea Party Republicans and GOP-leaners support gay marriage by 57-36. Tea Party Republicans are often said to be more libertarian-leaning on social issues than other segments of the GOP base (such as evangelicals), but a majority of them still opposes same-sex marriage.”

So the ‘baggers are “Libertarian” — only, without all that pesky liberty.

“All of this sheds more light on the question of whether Republicans need to evolve their party to keep in step with diversifying America,” he goes on. “As Ron Brownstein and Dem pollster Stan Greenberg have suggested, Dems may continue to profit politically in national elections from the GOP inability to broaden its appeal to segments of the electorate that include ‘diverse America’ and the portions of white America ‘who are comfortable with diverse America.’ If this is right, then on gay rights, the GOP continues to be captive to a base that shows no signs of wanting to move into that latter category.”

This is really another example of how gerrymandering is making the GOP a regional party. By drawing lines around the people most likely to vote for them, Republicans are basically choosing which people they’ll represent. And that smallminded, bigoted population is becoming narrower and more isolated on issue after issue after issue.

It says a lot about Republican ideals when they have to actually seek out the most hateful and gullible voters in order to maintain a fingerhold on power. When the only motivations to vote fore you are meanness and ignorance, your ideas can’t possibly be any good.

[photo by Elvert Barnes]

GOP caving on debt limit hostage demands — before they’ve even officially made them

Bloomberg News: House Republican leaders are giving up efforts to couple a U.S. debt-limit increase with provisions backing the Keystone XL pipeline or repealing an insurance-risk provision in Obamacare, two party leadership aides said.

House leaders lack enough Republican support for either option, and they are looking at other possible conditions to attach to an increase in the debt limit, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.

One option being discussed by some Republicans is raising the debt ceiling without conditions, relying mostly on Democratic votes.

That sound you hear is thousands of wingnuts and ‘baggers shouting, “RiNO!” in unison. It’s an election year and Republicans have a choice: they can appeal to the average voter who doesn’t like continual hostage-taking and forced crises or they can pander to the always-angry base and bring government to a grinding halt — again — to pick a fight they can’t possibly hope to win.

And so House GOP throws the ‘baggers under the bus.

[photo via Wikimedia Commons]

Conservatives taking news of Fluke’s congress run with as much class as you’d expect

BONUS FUN: everything conservatives think they know about Sandra Fluke is wrong.

Everything.

Goodbye Henry, hello Sandra?

When Henry Waxman announced his retirement, he cited the hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington as one of the reasons. Tea Partier’s rejoiced and claimed they’d basically run Waxman out of town.

So they supposedly get rid of one liberal and who steps up to replace him? Their worst freakin’ nightmare — who stands a decent chance of winning this liberal district.

Congrats ‘baggers. If Waxman’s retirement was your doing, then Sandra Fluke is a candidate of your own making.

The reasoning behind climate change 'skepticism'

Nick Anderson: Polar Vortex

Boehner’s idea of leadership

Los Angeles Times: House Speaker John A. Boehner called last fall’s government shutdown a “very predictable disaster” that he warned his fellow Republicans to avoid, but ultimately went along with it at the behest of colleagues intent on a standoff with President Obama over his healthcare law.

Making his “Tonight Show” debut Thursday, the Ohio Republican told host Jay Leno that the episode reflected the challenges he faces leading an often rambunctious House majority.

“When I looked up, I saw my colleagues going this way.  And you learn that a leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk,” he said. “So I said, ‘You want to fight this fight?  I’ll go fight the fight with you.’ But it was a very predictable disaster.”

Leading by following. It’s the Boehner way.

After telling this little story, The Orange Weeper explained his job as Speaker, as he saw it: “Some members, I have to be the big brother figure. Some, I have to be the father figure.  Others, I have to be the dean of students or the principal. Some of them, I have to be the Gestapo.”

And sometimes he has to be the irresponsible babysitter who lets the kids eat all the candy they want, so he doesn’t have to listen to them cry about it. And if the kids are up all night puking afterward? Not his fault.

[photo by Gage Skidmore]

Republicans try to tamp down latest unhinged candidate outbreak

Maybe they shouldn’t have abandoned that whole rebranding thing after all.

Raw Story: A Republican congressional candidate from Illinois refused to honor her party’s call for her to abandon the race despite her sudden infamy, the Chicago Daily Herald reported on Thursday.

“I’m not withdrawing from the race,” Susanne Atanus told the Herald. “I don’t know why they are not standing behind me. They should talk to me personally. I will not back out of the race.”

Atanus’ candidacy gained the wrong kind of national spotlight on Wednesday after she expressed her belief that God created autism and dementia and extreme weather conditions to punish the U.S. on account of legalized abortion and the increasing support nationwide for marriage equality.

“God is angry,” she told the Herald. “We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions. Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”

Atanus is running against David Earl Williams III for the right to represent the GOP against incumbent Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). However, Republican leaders at both the local and state level released a statement on Thursday disavowing her completely.

This is the GOP’s recurring nightmare heading toward November; that some out-there, bigoted, ignorant ‘bagger candidate will become the face of the Republican Party. Mike Huckabee (although not a candidate, definitely a Tea Party type) ran that scenario yesterday and of course there are others, like the Florida candidate who won’t step back from his fervent belief that Pres. Obama must die.

But the bigger concern isn’t exactly that people will assume that candidates like Atanus speak for the GOP, but rather that they’ll prove that many in the party believe this horsecrap. One of the more important bits of fallout from Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” fiasco was that there was no shortage of people — either in the media or in the party itself — who thought that Akin was absolutely right. The idea that rape rarely results in pregnancy because women have some sort of auto-contraceptive system that kicks when they’re sexually assaulted is such a common lie among anti-choice zealots that nearly everyone in the GOP base actually believes it. To them, Akin was only saying what they thought was common knowledge and defended him as they would the truth.

And Atanus doesn’t sound any different from any random Tea Party activist or columnist for WorldNetDaily. People go on Fox News and say things like this without any pushback at all, because this is the sort of mumbo-jumbo that so many of them believe is absolute Gospel. So the base, like Susanne Atanus herself, has to be wondering what the big deal is. Hell, this sort of thing is just an average day on talk radio or wingnut blogs. Why’s everyone freaking out about it now?

What Republicans are afraid of isn’t what Atanus said, but that what she and other candidates and pundits like her say may become an intraparty debate. They don’t want to shut her down before liberals notice and start to attack, they want to shut her down before conservatives notice and rush to defend.

Rep. Steve Stockman demonstrates why govt. regulations are necessary

"My Lord, a few days ago we reported how Tea Partier and Texas Crazy Congressman Steve Stockman had the city Fire Marshal condemn his campaign headquarters as an unsafe workplace last month. This came out just after Stockman announced he was challenging John Cornyn for Senate - and I guess gives some insight into why Stockman is so against government regulations. But I didn’t realize it was this bad. We just got hold of the photos of the condemned property. And they’ve got to be seen to be believed."
--Josh Marshall, “WTF is All I got.”

Photos are here and, yeah, it looks like a freakin’ crack house. There are homeless squatters who have better digs.

Keep these photos in mind the next time some ‘bagger talks about ‘onerous regulations.’ Big gummint came along and shut Stockman’s HQ down — not because regulations on workplace safety are so insanely strict, but because Stockman couldn’t tell that asking people to work in this rathole was not OK.

"Burdensome" workplace safety and health regulations don’t exist despite people like Steve Stockman. They exist because of them.

Here’s the stupid thing wingnuts are freaking out about today

Hey look! Pres. Barack HUSSEIN Obama shook hands with Raul Castro at Mandela’s funeral! Clearly, this is the end of America.

Of course, Obama gave a speech at the funeral and this section was obviously aimed directly at leaders like Castro:

We know that, like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation.  As was true here, it took sacrifice — the sacrifice of countless people, known and unknown, to see the dawn of a new day.  Michelle and I are beneficiaries of that struggle.  (Applause.)  But in America, and in South Africa, and in countries all around the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not yet done.

The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality or universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important.  For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger and disease.  We still see run-down schools.  We still see young people without prospects for the future.  Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs, and are still persecuted for what they look like, and how they worship, and who they love.  That is happening today.  (Applause.)

And so we, too, must act on behalf of justice.  We, too, must act on behalf of peace.  There are too many people who happily embrace Madiba’s legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality.  There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba’s struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people.  (Applause.)  And there are too many of us on the sidelines, comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.

But you know, calling out oppressive government leaders to their face is meaningless if you shake their hand too. Obama should’ve lifted a page from Ronald Reagan, who beat Mikhail Gorbachev mercilessly every time he saw him or — or Donald Rumsfeld, who once killed Saddam Hussein dead.

You can only see this as some sort of pro-Castro move if you ignore everything Obama said at that event and ignore how it was meant to publicly shame Raul Castro and others like him. As always, the Wingnut Outrage of the Day is weak, dishonest, and tiresome — but this time especially so.

Comment thread for Breitbart obit for Mandela devolves into racist hatefest pretty much immediately

From the comment thread to Nelson Mandela’s obit at Breitbart.com:

• Yawn
• One less commie in this world.
• Will his estate still get royalties for the use of his image on boxes of rice?
• Another One Bites The Dust !
• Prepare to see whites fawn all over this man for the next few days.
• Nelson Mandela: Communist, Terrorist, Liar …
• I heard he had the AIDS…
• This guy was more zero than hero. South Africa use to be an advanced society and is still the only country to have ever given up nuclear weapons. They have been taking the farms from the white s and now the country can’t even feed itself. You should see the pictures I have from SA. They aren’t pretty and we’ll have the same thing here very soon. People will be living behind barb wire, electric fences, and have weapons always at the ready.
• Fawning, whining and gnashing of teeth from “white guilters” in 3…2…1…
• The Prawn of District 9 have lost their greatest advocate.

There’s much more, but you get the idea. If these are the sort of people who celebrate your passing, then you’ve lived a very good life.

Maybe Rand Paul should go back to plagiarism

Daily Beast: Senator Rand Paul gave his first major speech in the wake of a recent plagiarism scandal Tuesday to cadets at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. But while his staff added 33 footnotes to the publicly released version of his speech about U.S. foreign policy, just because everything was correctly cited didn’t necessarily make it accurate.

The Kentucky senator’s speech included extensive citations in the wake of Paul being exposed as a serial plagiarizer by a number of outlets including Buzzfeed and MSNBC. In his defense, Paul initially dismissed these concerns as attacks from “haters.” But, after losing his column from the Washington Times, Paul acknowledged that “mistakes” were made and said he would restructure his office.

The restructuring seemed to be effective so far in that the content of Paul’s speech was entirely original. But, some of the arguments that the Kentucky senator made did not match the facts associated with his own footnotes.

If you ask me, this is actually worse than the plagiarism scandal. Paul’s using footnotes as cover to pull “facts” out of his ass and hopes no one will check. Where as plagiarism as Paul used it was basically just intellectual laziness, this is a conscious effort to mislead. It’s like if I said, “The facts show that Rand Paul had his brain replaced with a turnip after a motorcycle accident in 1995 (see Wikipedia, “Turnip”).” If you check, you’ll find plenty about turnips, but nothing about Rand Paul’s brain. What I told you was a lie and I’m just using the phony citation to make it seem extra truthy.

In his case, Rand cites articles about Egypt to claim the Obama administration sent weapons to the Egypt’s military government, something the articles themselves say nothing about. And the silence on the subject is entirely because the claim is simply not true. It never happened. Rand Paul is a liar, as unsurprising as that fact may be, whether he has a turnip for a brain or not.

Of course, the press will give him a pass on this. Pretending you wrote something that is actually true is a scandal, making up your own lies is just politics as usual.

[photo via Wikimedia Commons]

Rand Paul doesn’t seem to be taking his plagiarism scandal well

I mean, just look at that photo. Actual quote from the story: “Paul admitted that he had ‘made mistakes’ and said new procedures were being put in place to make footnotes available ‘if it will make people leave me the hell alone.’”

A real levelheaded guy in a crisis. Cool under pressure. Born leader. Should totally run for president.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m enjoying this immensely.

Global warming denial driven mostly by the Tea Party

Greg Sargent: Some fascinating new findings from Pew Research suggest deep divisions among Republicans over whether global warming is happening:

Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades, a figure that has changed little in the past few years. While partisan differences over climate change remain substantial, Republicans face greater internal divisions over this issue than do Democrats.

Just 25% of Tea Party Republicans say there is solid evidence of global warming, compared with 61%of non-Tea Party Republicans.

Republican voters overall are evenly divided, 46-46, over whether global warming is happening, but this divide is driven by the lopsided difference between Tea Party and non-Tea Party Republicans on the question, with a solid majority of the latter in the global warming camp. “It’s not Democrat versus Republican, it’s Democrat and Republican versus the Tea Party,” Jeff Gohringer, spokesman for the League of Conservation Voters, tells me.

Just another example of how a shrill minority of nutjobs is driving our national conversation in completely self-destructive ways. Gerrymandering isn’t just a cheat, it’s a cancer.

[photo via Wikimedia Commons]

Tea Party announces RiNO hunt

Right Wing Watch: Tea Party groups are still reeling from the unsuccessful push by Sen. Ted Cruz and his allies to use a government shutdown to force the defunding of the Affordable Care Act, blaming RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) for their failure.

Tea Party Nation emailed members today urging them not to support so-called RINOs, even in the general election:

In every state where there is a RINO running for the Senate and certain establishment Republicans are running for reelection in the House, like John Boehner and Eric Cantor, conservatives need to agree on one challenger to support against the incumbent.

If that challenger wins, then everyone supports the challenger in the November 2014 elections. If the challenger fails, then instead of grudgingly supporting the establishment Republican, we all then need to fall back to supporting an independent or a third party candidate who is worthy of support.

Other ‘bagger groups are making similar noises, meaning the damage may go beyond intra-party skirmishes in the primaries and onto a completely brainless and counterproductive splitting of the conservative vote in the general.

And just sort of a random observation: I wonder if Tea Partiers realize they use the acronym “RiNO” the same way Maoists used the term “counter-revolutionary”? Violations of conservative PC are basically thought crimes and no independent thinking is allowed. It’s party line 100% down the line or you’re — ironically — a commie.

[photo by Talk Radio News Service]

Teabaggers not done with kamikaze runs quite yet

Daily Kos: The Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative political action committee founded by Heritage CEO Jim DeMint when he was in the U.S. Senate, has endorsed Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin, who is running a tea party challenge against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary next May. Louisville Courier-Journal:

"We have interviewed a lot of candidates this year and Matt Bevin is one of the very best. He’s principled, passionate, and has Ted Cruz-like courage,” said Matt Hoskins, the group’s executive director, referring to Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas, who led the fight to shut down government in an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

So, if Kentucky Republicans are looking for the second coming of Ted Cruz, SCF says Matt Bevin is their man…

True to the headline, Sarah Palin is also making some pro-Bevin noise, which is probably not the world’s best news for Mitch. Right now, McConnell’s in a bona fide tossup with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who he’s currently trailing by two points. Split the conservative vote between McConnell and Bevin (who was previously destined to be a footnote) and Grimes is the obvious beneficiary. DeMint and Palin would be punishing Mitch McConnell, to be sure, but they’d also be helping Grimes. Cutting off your nose to spite your face seems to be a favorite Tea Party pastime.

Tea Party wings swears to Jesus that they haven’t gotten any less crazy

Politico: Sarah Palin, who supported losing Senate candidate Steve Lonegan in New Jersey and the efforts to defund Obamacare in a government funding bill that led to the shutdown, said the focus after losing both fights should be on 2014.

“Friends, do not be discouraged by the shenanigans of D.C.’s permanent political class today. Be energized. We’re going to shake things up in 2014,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page early Thursday morning. “Rest well tonight, for soon we must focus on important House and Senate races. Let’s start with Kentucky – which happens to be awfully close to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi – from sea to shining sea we will not give up. We’ve only just begun to fight.”

In each of the states she mentioned, a Republican incumbent senator that has been a target of tea party challengers is up for reelection in 2014.

Meanwhile, over at the wingnut Twitter aggregator Twitchy, the mood is “Yay for Sarah Palin! Let’s hunt some RiNOs!”

Allow me to point to one of my recent posts on the shutdown, Tea Party sore loserism, and the 2014 elections:

[I want to offer] a counterargument to the whole “this is all going to blow over by the time the elections roll around” narrative offered by the punditry right now. Why is anyone assuming that Republicans are going to suddenly be struck sane or learn some sort of lesson from this? Ted Cruz, for example, shoveled coal into this runaway train from the gitgo, knowing full well that it wasn’t going anywhere in the end. By mixing nihilism with political opportunism, Cruz was able to make a hero of himself to the endlessly chumpish base. Why does anyone think he’s going to stop being an influence when this is over — or that the lesson the rest of the GOP learns won’t come from Cruz’s example?

If this shutdown/debt limit disaster is supposed to have no effect on the 2014 or 2016 elections, then it follows that the Republican Party, rightwing media, and the Tea Party base will be struck sane by the experience and stop being kamikaze pilots/hostage takers/wild-eyed, unhinged warriors against reality. Hands up, who actually sees that happening?

No, they’ll lose this fight, but they don’t feel compelled to operate within reality. They’ll probably even get worse. The fact that they lost here doesn’t mean they’re willing to stop fighting. It’s Cruz et. al. vs. the Republican realists now and the rhetoric is going to get unhinged. We are in for brutal intra-party primary battles in 2014. It’s practically guaranteed.

If there’s one thing the far right loves, it’s nursing their own failure. You get to play victim cards and you get to tell everyone, “The fight is not over!” — which is a fundrasing bonanza. Anyone who said that this wouldn’t have an effect on the 2014 elections may have badly miscalculated just what a motivating force failure is to people with fear-based political messages. Talk radio is going to amp everything up to eleven, Tea Party nutjobs are going to become even more shrill, and Republican primaries are going to produce a new crop of Todd Akin/Christine O’Donnell/Sharron Angle-like candidates who say completely insane things that the completely insane base will rush out to defend until their last breath. And, of course, grifters like Palin see a chance to stretch out their fifteen minutes of fame by exploiting the abject terror that accompanies wingnuts’ losses.

The ‘baggers have not finished making self-destructive political decisions. Not by a long shot.

[photo by Gage Skidmore]

Tea Party Tantrum

Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons.

Highly Unserious

Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle.

GOP plan to stand with the American people not going very well

Quinnipiac: American voters oppose 72 - 22 percent Congress shutting down the federal government to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.

Voters also oppose 64 - 27 percent blocking an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling as a way to stop Obamacare, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.
[…]
President Barack Obama gets a negative 45 - 49 percent overall job approval rating, compared to his 46 - 48 percent score August 2.

American voters disapprove 74 - 17 percent of the job Republicans in Congress are doing, their lowest score ever, and disapprove 60 - 32 percent of the job Democrats are doing.

"Americans are certainly not in love with Obamacare, but they reject decisively the claim by Congressional Republicans that it is so bad that it’s worth closing down the government to stop it," says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

“President Barack Obama enters this standoff over the budget with an edge over Congressional Republicans in the voters’ eyes.”

Republicans have been claiming they stand with voters here, but they so clearly do not — and it may cost them dearly in the future.

Looking at the 2014 Congressional races, voters pick a generic Democrat over a generic Republican candidate 43 - 34 percent, the widest Democratic margin measured so far.

“On almost all questions, voters see President Obama as more reasonable, and better able to handle the issues,” Brown said. “But it is not because the president is beloved. He remains under water in job approval and is tied with Congressional Republicans on who best handles the budget deficit. Voters are angry at almost everyone in Washington over their inability to keep the trains running, but they are madder at the Republicans than the Democrats.

“In general, the Republican brand is down as evidenced by the Democrats’ unusually large lead in the so called generic ballot. But we have 13 months before an election can translate this public opinion edge into electoral gains and in politics that amount of time is forever.”

Hands up, who thinks Republicans plan on being less crazy and irresponsible in the coming thirteen months? Who’s been living in a broom closet since 2010?

[photo by IPBrian]