Sorry Everybody
I've been really busy today - lots of stuff to deal with so I didn't get a chance to update. In penance for this, I hope to appease thee with a cartoon.
by MG at 9:47 PM
Monday, August 15, 2005 |
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This is just being reported so the details are a lil' sketchy, but apparantly some idiot redneck just drove slow and deliberate over the crosses at Camp Cindy in his pickemup truck.
How low can you go? Scumbag!
Also,
The Daily Show is doing it up about Cindy tonight.
And they say that the liberals are the ones who don't know how to show respect to the soldiers. Eeeesh.
But y'know, the cartoon isn't very accurate. I mean, Bush actually confronting Sheehan?! Come on! He decided to travel the 20 miles to the Little League Championship via helicopter (at taxpayer expense) just so he wouldn't have to pass by the protestors.
Phil
http://nomadechoes.blogdrive.com
the truck thing blows. You know some Meth-head subsidize redneck fuck is cackling in a trailer somewhere, high on the thrill of being a bully with a truck.
i'm not wild about the media clusterfuck this had turned into, but shit, that sucks. Part of the proud tradition of inimidating descent.
I guess the shitheel got caught by Crawford's finest.
Gee, which ones are the fine, upstanding citizens?
The ONLY THINGS missing from this cartoon are all the left-wing-nuts and her publicist pushing this hapless woman toward the tank.
No offense (exactly), but you all will forget she ever existed the second her usefulness is finished.
As for some of you REAL RADICAL lefties, it must be strange to wish disaster on your own government and military...ever wonder about that?
He traveled 20 miles by helicopter huh? Nice to know that during record setting fuel prices that the president is leading by example when it comes to conservation.
Also... some redneck ran over the crosses at camp cindy? Won't that keep him out of redneck(religious nutjob) heaven? Crawford's finest probably bought the SOB a beer for what he did!
Funny thing is timer those scary "REAL RADICAL lefties" are ordinary everday Americans w/ families, some are blue collar, some are white collar, some are pious some are less than. I think the idea is that they love their country and as such are trying to prevent futher disaster at the hands of an administration that has in their eyes. furthered bad policy after bad policy, we have had enough bad news and let down as a nation in the past five years to last a life time, its time for a change, ever think of that?
Timmer,
we don't wish disaster on our government or our military. We wish for our military to be saved from Bush's madness.
We wish for the executive branch of government to be impeached, so yes, we do wish disaster on THEM. But not on government as a whole.
You need to make a distinction between a legitimate government apparatus, and the criminals and warmongers who have hijacked its executive branch.
I just read last night that her husband has filed for a divorce. Does it have anything to do with her public actions? I also wonder why more parents of dead and wounded troops are not standing beside her...
Tony - I think they separated because of the strain of Casey's death. Obviously I'm not a flay on the wall of their marriage, but it's quite common. Plus, she's turning her grief outward, in a very public way, and while I've read that he does support what she's doing, he himself is not interested in being a public figure.
As for this truck I am hearing about, I will DEFINITELY be posting about it.
Dear Timmer,
I have but one request for you Timmer. Please do us all a favor turn off the talk radio and Foxnews for at least one week and read a good book, go see a movie, or see a live band. I'm serious. I was once like you, read the news, watch Foxnews, and listen to talk radio. Then I stopped and started doing normal things again. It's amazing, I can think!
Please try it for a least a week and see how you feel. If nothing changes then continue to listen to chubby behind the golden EIB microphone and Foxnews, fair and balanced.
Duck,
Thanks for the advice - and yes, it's true, my consumption of news these days sometimes borders on the excessive...although I submit to you (can't prove it) that my horizons are actually very broad and inclusive - I like to hear both sides.
But unless I'm sadly mistaken, that is PRECISELY what most of us Political Bloggers/Blog-Readers have in common -- news obsession.
Sorry Duck, but here you are on a political blog and probably haven't changed all that much in your own news obsessions (except now you might get your fix from CBS, NPR, PBS, "The Daily Show, Bill Mahrer and "Air America".)
And maybe that's one of the few things we share in common - other than the passion for discourse that usually accompanies such an acute appetite for news.
My views are obviously different than yours, but (as Moxie has pointed out) I am not here to endear anyone -- just to share my viewpoint. If I ruffle feathers and serve as a catalyst for liberal ranting, well - that's the name of the game on Blogs, my friend.
I enjoy it when Liberals visit my own blog, and have only twice deleted comments because of malicious content.
If it's one thing I have learned about liberals in the past year, it is this: You all LOVE to get FIRED UP (e.g. "an angry girl with a computer and a dream"). And just like many over-the-top Conservatives, y'all can also lose sight of "fair and balanced."
Am I wrong? (I think not...)
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Of course you're wrong, Timmer. Otherwise we wouldn't be arguing with you! ;-)
Hey Timmer 1 of your Govs is going down - Prosecutor: Ohio Governor to Be Charged Wednesday August 17, 2005 8:46 PM By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Bob Taft will face misdemeanor charges for not reporting golf outings paid for by others, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Taft, a second-term Republican and member of a distinguished U.S. political family, would be the first Ohio governor to be charged with a crime. If convicted of the four misdemeanors, he could be fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail on each count, though time behind bars was considered unlikely.
Taft will be charged later Wednesday, said City Prosecutor Stephen McIntosh, who declined to comment further pending an afternoon news conference.
The governor will respond publicly on Thursday and is not planning to resign, spokesman Mark Rickel said.
Investigators have looked for weeks at Taft's alleged violation of a law requiring officeholders to report gifts worth more than $75 unless the donor is reimbursed. He had announced the problems involving reporting of golf outings in June but said any errors were inadvertent.
The allegations about Taft, 63, grew out of a scandal that began with revelations of problems with an unusual state investment in rare coins.
The investment was handled by coin dealer Tom Noe, a top GOP donor. Noe has acknowledged that up to $13 million is missing from the fund, and Attorney General Jim Petro has accused him of stealing as much as $4 million.
Taft released records Aug. 5 showing he accepted invitations to 21 golf outings since 1999. They included a 2001 outing with Noe.
The records released earlier this month did not indicate who paid for the outings. Taft's golf partners included John Snow, then the head of transportation company CSX Corp. and now the U.S. Treasury secretary; and Tony Alexander, president and chief executive of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.
Some partners have said Taft paid for the golf; others have said they picked up the tab.
In a speech given in May, the governor had stressed the importance of ethical behavior for public employees.
``Public employees can enjoy entertainment, such as golf or dining out, with persons working for a regulated company, or one doing business with the state, ONLY if they fully pay their own way,'' he said in the speech at Xavier University.
Taft's former chief of staff Brian Hicks pleaded no contest last month to failing to report stays at Noe's million-dollar Florida home. He was found guilty and fined $1,000 after entering the plea.
The charges against Taft are another blow to the GOP in the Republican-controlled state that won President Bush re-election. Democrats have found hope for the next election in the investment scandal and surprisingly close race this month for an open seat in southwest Ohio's 2nd Congressional District, a GOP stronghold that the Republican candidate only barely managed to win.
Taft's great-grandfather was President William Howard Taft - who later was chief justice - and both his father and grandfather were U.S. senators from Ohio.
Other Ohio governors have come under investigation, including Republican George Voinovich, investigated for unproven allegations he laundered campaign money, and Democrat Richard Celeste, whose connections to a contributor who owned the failed Home State Savings Bank were examined."
To coin a new phrase A Taft on graft.
Timmer I completely agree with one on the fact that I am a news junkie and made no attempt to hide that fact. In fact I spent so much time searching for news that I nearly lost my mind in the process. Such is the world today. Once were news was centrally isolated to an area nas now gown out of control. News from the British Isles and other countries is merely a click away.
I am slowly trying to ween myself off of the news and other things and focusing on what is important in my life. That is, my life. People in the US really need to get lives. Go out and experience the world around them instead of clicking on it. I think there was an episode of Futurama that addressed that very issue. Only I think the subject was about sex and not the news. Go outside and get a suntan or something.
Not to ruffle your feathers DUCK (I couldn't resist!),
We are probably in 80% or more agreement - but for the record I have a GREAT tan (these days from yard work) and have walked, biked, driven, ran and stumbled (yes, I have had a drink once or twice ;-) all over four continents - in fact lived abroad (Europe and Middle East) for more than ten years.
Now that I am an old MARRIED DAD, "clicking" is better until my toddler son learns to wipe his own bum and I can take the family for a proper holiday.
News Junky? I can live with that...beats the flip-side (clueless).
News Junky? I can live with that...beats the flip-side (clueless).
Unless your news source is FOX, then you're a news junky that's clueless ;p
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Now Mox, if I had any feelings THAT woulda' hurt. You are SO INSENSITIVE ;-)))))))
No no, I'm not insensitive, I'm just eeeevul!
And prone to using geekspeek.
Timmer I think you and I are more a like than 80%. I run and trail ride (bike) all over the place and try to be outside as much as possible. I do visit bars and have a couple of drinks from time to time. In fact, I was there today and one TV had CNN and the other ESPN. Of course I watched ESPN.
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