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So Peter Manso faces a potential life sentence (he’s 67) for doing no harm to anybody by violating laws that few respect and even fewer understand and thereby making himself vulnerable to officials who may be out to get him.
In a free country, that’s not how the law is supposed to work.
Funny, his due is jail, so its hard to fathom what this fascist fanboy is belching about:
O’Hanlon: Bush deserves credit for Iraq being free of WMD.
Last night, CBS News reviewed President Bush’s legacy and noted that it will largely be defined by his misguided invasion of Iraq. During its report, Iraq war apologist Michael O’Hanlon recalled that Bush went to war in a “deliberately cavalier way,” but added that Americans should “be fair” and give Bush credit for their being no WMD in Iraq:
O’HANLON: But let’s also be fair. Iraq now seems to be a quasi-functioning democracy, without weapons of mass destruction, without genocides against its own citizens or attacks against its neighbors. So, to some extent, we’ve got to give the president his due.
Don’t know about you, but if somebody had to lie to praise me, I’d feel a bit…worthless?
During a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God, John McInsane’s running mate Sarah Palin said the following:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
Game, set, match. If you think we’re fighting the Crusades again, then you have no place in American politics. And regardless if the masses shuffling up and down the Walmart aisles nod their heads until their cowbells clank in agreement with you, you do not - and should not- speak for this nation.
Get off the stage, you Harriet Miers of the north, and take your “God blesses our genocide” rhetoric with you.
Intrepid TTPers in NYC, what goes on here?
Fan Ejected From Yankee Stadium For Bathroom Break
Man Says Cops Kicked Him Out When He Tried To Go To Men’s Room During ‘God Bless America’
A Queens man is considering legal action against the New York Yankees after he was ejected from Tuesday night’s contest against the Boston Red Sox for trying to use the restroom during the playing of “God Bless America.”
During the patriotic 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, nature called on Bradford Campeau-Laurion. When he tried to leave his seat during the traditional singing of God Bless America, however, he says he was stopped by a NYPD officer who said he’d have to wait until the song was done.
“I then said to him, ‘I don’t care about God Bless America. I just need to use the bathroom.’ As soon as I said that, he immediately pinned my arm behind my back,” Campeau-Laurion told CBS 2.
The 29-year-old says two officers pinned both of his arms behind his back and ejected him from the stadium.
“He shoved me out the front gate and told me get out of their country if I didn’t like it,” he said.
Campeau-Laurion says he didn’t know the Yankees had a rule restricting movement in the stands during the playing of God Bless America. The rule is enforced by ushers, stadium security and the NYPD.
Please tell me that this “America Uber Alles” bullshit is just that, bullshit. Please tell me that the Yankees and the NYPD aren’t so blatantly stupid as to create and enforce a rule that says you have no freedom of movement or speech during the playing of a song celebrating our freedom to do just that.
Defective pumps used to protect New Orleans
Corps of Engineers defends supplier, says pumps were better than nothing
NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new pumps were never pressed into action. But the Corps and the politically connected manufacturer of the equipment are still struggling to get the 34 heavy-duty pumps working properly.
Who knew?
Otis ‘Bullman’ Hensley says sex charges are result of a misunderstanding
HARLAN — A two-time candidate for governor who is charged with attempting to “entice” a 13-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister to engage in “illegal sexual activity” says the allegations against him stem from a misunderstanding.
According to the complaint, the father of the two sisters contacted the county attorney about the incident, which allegedly occurred on Monday. The Harlan County Sheriff’s Office arrested Hensley on Monday.
However, Hensley said during an interview Tuesday at the Harlan County Detention Center that the incident was a misunderstanding.
Hensley said he was grocery shopping at Don’s Supersaver in Harlan when he saw the two girls and their grandmother.
“The one girl turned around and looked at me and smiled,” Hensley said. “I said ‘Ma’am, do you want to trade them girls for a good fattening hog?’ and then I went on into the meat department. That was all that was said.”
(The phrase may be a reference to the long-ago practice of giving farm animals as part of a dowry.)
Hensley said the grandmother became upset and went to tell the girls’ father about his comment.
He said he followed the family out of the store and then to the courthouse trying to apologize.
He meant nothing sexual, he said, and uses the phrase often as a joke and a means to “cut up with people” in the county, where he is well-known for his unorthodox campaign style. Just before going into the grocery store, he made the same comment to a woman and young girl in the bank, he said.
When asked what the phrase means to him he said: “It was a joke. I was just being friendly, having fun. I meant nothing by it.”
Harlan County sheriff’s deputies arrested Hensley about 6 p.m. Monday. He is charged with first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, a Class B felony that can carry a sentence of 10 years to 20 years.
All kidding aside, this is insipid. If you raise your daughters to pee their britches anytime an adult cracks a joke around them, you’re sentencing them to a life, at best, on an analysts couch.
For a while last year, it seemed the reports of tainted food, drugs, and toys flowing in from China would never cease. First came the pet food scare, in which a toxic additive killed thousands of animals. Summer brought vast recalls of lead-tainted Thomas trains and other name-brand toys, counterfeit Colgate containing antifreeze, salmonella-infected toddler snacks, and ddt-contaminated seafood. In the fall and winter, dozens of patients died after receiving bad batches of heparin, a blood-thinning drug produced in China by US firms.
At the height of it all, President Bush offered lip service. “The American people expect their government to work tirelessly to make sure consumer products are safe. And that is precisely what my administration is doing,” he declared that July. He then issued an executive order directing Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to seek solutions. Two months later, Leavitt promised that US agencies would pinpoint the riskiest imports and step up enforcement. And then nothing happened.
William Hubbard, a senior Food and Drug Administration official who retired in 2005 after serving under seven presidents, had seen it all before. In response to the 9/11 attacks, staffers at the fda—which oversees some 80 percent of food imports (the usda handles the rest)—had developed an Import Strategic Plan that revealed perilously weak controls on food imports. Unveiled in 2003, it was intended to boost inspections of risky cargo and slap greater penalties on importers of dangerous goods. It would have cost a paltry $80 million, but the administration had already made its wishes clear: No new programs. As Hubbard recalls, then-deputy fda commissioner Lester Crawford “told us there’s no money for this, and the White House wants to cut it.”
Ah yes, GOP governance in full bloom. Why do something, when just talking about it is so much easier and cheaper?
Just ask bin Laden. He’s eating a big plate full of Sweet and Sour Antifreeze at a diner in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans.
Made the mistake of flipping around cableland last night (shudder…) and stumbled upon the Texas Twisted, John Hagee, pimping this:
Which deals with the following “issues”:
Vote the Bible. It is a 3 part sermon series that covers the following:
* God’s Purpose for the Church
* Should Christians get involved in the Political Process?
* The Bible’s Position on Abortion
* Defending Religious Freedom…Is It Ever Right to Defy the Government?
* War: Is It Ever Justified?
* The Crisis of Education
* The Coming Economic Crash
* The Immigration Crisis
* The Marriage Crisis
* Global Warming: Fact or Farce?
I want you to get this series, listen to it until this oasis of truth becomes a part of your knowledge base and then give it to friends and family. This series can make a difference as America prepares to select our next President.
So between this political advocacy, and his endorsement of McCain, how does this swindling behemoth keep his tax exemption?
Or phrased another way…why am I paying this gasbag of hate and stupidity against my will?
I’m John McCain, and I approve this song:
Da - ddy Yan- kee !
shake it mambo so that my cat (cat = babe) can turn on the engine,
shake it mambo so that my cat (cat = babe) can turn on the engine,
shake it mambo so that my cat (cat = babe) can turn on the engine,
Get ready, because whats coming is to give it to her, (hard!
Mamita, I know that you aren’t going to take away (hard!)
What I like is that you let yourself get taken away (hard!)
every weekend she goes out to have fun (hard!)
my cat doesn’t stop hanging out because
She likes gasoline (give me more gasoline!)
How she loves gasoline (give me more gasoline!) 2
From the online Urban dictionary:
gasolina: New spanish slang meaning Sperm (Skeet)
Thank you, John McCain, for providing further examples of this. You really, really don’t want this job, do ya?
Talk about the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. This is so laughably inept, you’d almost think they f’d up on purpose…
A half-billion-dollar emergency program to repair the nation’s main and deeply flawed terrorist watch list is “on the brink of collapse,” according to a Congressional investigation. That means that warning signs of a terrorist attack could again be lost in the chaos.
The new program, known as Railhead, is intended to fix the problems with the current outmoded program. That database — begun as an urgent priority after the Sept. 11 attacks — has been bedeviled by an array of problems, including the inability to do basic searches to find suspects’ names.
Bush administration officials have been pronouncing Railhead a success. But the investigation by a House Science and Technology subcommittee found it crippled by serious design flaws, management blunders and runaway contractors. Hundreds of private contractors from dozens of companies involved were recently laid off as government managers finally ordered a fresh overhaul in the face of “insurmountable” problems.
Some of the flaws discovered are mind-bogglingly basic. The Railhead database, it seems, also has fundamental problems with its search function. It failed, for example, to handle multiple word searches connected by “and” and “or,” and it could not offer matches for slight misspellings of suspects’ names.
A half billion dollars and they can’t do a Boolean search? My damn cell phone can do a Boolean search!
Sleep tight America, have no fears. Your imperial federal government is rushing to protect you, using 1983 database tools and the management skills of five toddlers on a Slip N’ Slide.
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