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This is funny and silly. Seriously is there anything at all that Muslims are not outraged about? What the fuck!
This from Malkin. I swear Muslims are like Klingons, always pissed off. They need to smoke some good herb, sip some Crown and chill.

File this under “No good deed goes unpunished” by the Religion of Perpetual Outrage:

A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah.

The balls showed the Saudi Arabian flag which features the Koranic declaration of faith.

The US military said the idea had been to give something for Afghan children to enjoy and they did not realise it would cause offence.

The footballs were dropped from a helicopter in Khost province.

Some displayed flags from countries all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, which features the shahada, one of the five pillars of Islam - the declaration of faith.

The words, which include the name of Allah, are revered, and Muslims are very sensitive about where and how they can be used.

As we’ve learned from Rushdie Rage, MoCartoon Rage, Burger King Ice Cream Cone Rage, Koran Flushing Rage, Valentine’s Day Rage, Veil Rage, Pope Rage, Fallaci Rage, Miss World Pageant Rage, and Rushdie Knighthood Rage, they’re pretty damned “sensitive” (read: ready to riot) about everything.

She also has: Cartoon rage in Sweden - The forbidden Opus cartoons 

Michael Dukakis has seen this script before: a Republican administration besieged by scandal and running out the clock on its second term, while wide-eyed Democrats confidently lick their chops, knowing there’s no way in hell voters will reward the G.O.P. with four more years in the White House.It was around this very moment 20 years ago, the summer when Oliver North told Congress he was “authorized to do everything that I did” and Reagan fatigue took hold, that Mr. Dukakis, then the 53-year-old governor of Massachusetts, emerged at the head of a crowded Democratic presidential pack. By the time he was formally nominated in Atlanta the following July, he’d opened a 17-point lead over Vice President George H.W. Bush.

“I can handle this guy,” Mr. Dukakis supposedly replied around that time when John Sasso, his consultant in exile, asked to return to the campaign. “You worry about the first 100 days.”

So you can understand why the numerous harbingers of a triumphant 2008 for Democrats—George W. Bush’s Nixonian approval ratings, polls that show voters favoring a Democratic White House candidate by double-digit margins, the electorate’s historical aversion to three-term rule by one party—haven’t prompted Mr. Dukakis to begin planning his trip to the 2009 inaugural celebration.

“We’re not going to outspend the other guys,” he said during an interview in his modest office in the political science department at Northeastern University, where he was the first to arrive (at 7:30 a.m.) on a recent midsummer morning. “We’re probably not going to outstrategize them. And some crazy guy will blow up a building with three weeks to go, you know, and then we’ll be back in Bush-land again.”

Since his fall collapse was made official on Nov. 8, 1988—an eight-point, 426-to-112 electoral-vote loss to George H.W. Bush—Democrats have held up Mr. Dukakis’ general election campaign as a case study in the perils of not hitting back. In 1992, Bill Clinton, with his rapid response team and pitch-perfect shaming of Mr. Bush in their first debate, showed he’d learned the lesson; in 2004, John Kerry showed that he’d forgotten it.

But while Mr. Dukakis readily indicts himself for fatally ignoring the 1988 version of Swift-Boating—the G.O.P.’s success with Willie Horton, he said, “was my own damn fault; no one else’s”—he worries that his party has oversimplified the lesson of his defeat, and of Mr. Kerry’s and Al Gore’s, too. And if Democrats don’t learn the right lesson soon, he fears they’ll be locked out of the White House for a third straight time in 2008—no matter how rosy the electoral math now looks.

Read the from the New York Observer here

thanks Boo!
This is just a portion of a much longer article, link here. Now this article is not going to be earth shattering to those of you who are even moderately aware of the history of NOLA and of course those of you with basic common sense.

It’s scary, that despite all the evidence and knowledge available to people these days there are those who choose to allow emotion to rot grey matter and erode rational thinking.

The same people who believe that NOLA should be transformed to the glistening jewel it was before Katrina, are also the mentally challenged types who said O.J. was innocent.
Ignorance is a terrible thing.

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With seas rising, storms getting stronger, and ground subsiding, another disaster like Katrina seems inevitable. Yet some residents would rather run that risk than leave the place they call home.Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in United States history, was also a warning shot. Right after the tragedy, many people expressed a defiant resolve to rebuild the city. But among engineers and experts, that resolve is giving way to a growing awareness that another such disaster is inevitable, and nothing short of a massive and endless national commitment can prevent it.

Located in one of the lowest spots in the United States, the Big Easy is already as much as 17 feet (five meters) below sea level in places, and it continues to sink, by up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) a year. Upstream dams and levees built to tame Mississippi River floods and ease shipping have starved the delta downstream of sediments and nutrients, causing wetlands that once buffered the city against storm-driven seas to sink beneath the waves. Louisiana has lost 1,900 square miles (4,900 square kilometers) of coastal lands since the 1930s; Katrina and Hurricane Rita together took out 217 square miles (562 square kilometers), putting the city that much closer to the open Gulf. Most ominous of all, global warming is raising the Gulf faster than at any time since the last ice age thawed. Sea level could rise several feet over the next century. Even before then, hurricanes may draw ever more energy from warming seas and grow stronger and more frequent.

And the city’s defenses are down. Despite having spent a billion dollars already, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers now estimates it will take until after 2010 to strengthen the levee system enough to withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, roughly the size of Category 3 Katrina. It would take decades more to protect the Big Easy from the truly Big One, a Category 4 or 5—if engineers can agree on how to do that and if Congress agrees to foot the almost unimaginable bill. For now, even a modest, Category 2 storm could reflood the city.

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The great tragedy of Katrina is that the hard lessons learned in those earlier storms were blithely forgotten by all. After the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 wreaked havoc all along its course and came within a few feet of spilling over the river levees and inundating New Orleans, the growing city clamored for additional protection. Over the coming decades, the federal government erected a vast network of levees and spillways along the river and around the city, while giant new dams along the Missouri—the Mississippi’s longest tributary—ponded water all the way to South Dakota. The system was billed as a triumph of engineering over nature.

Yet Gilbert F. White, considered the “father of floodplain management,” came to a far different conclusion, one that Katrina drove home with a vengeance. As a young University of Chicago geographer, White had studied the delta after the 1927 disaster and realized that much of the suffering could have been avoided. “Floods are ‘acts of God,’ ” he wrote in 1942, “but flood losses are largely acts of man.” White and his colleagues argued that dams, levees, and other flood protections may actually increase flood losses because they spur new development in the floodplain, which incurs catastrophic losses when man-made flood protections fail. The phenomenon came to be known as the “levee effect.”

Nowhere was White’s advice more gleefully flouted than in the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project—the 125-mile-long (200 kilometers) system of levees and gates built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect the city after Hurricane Betsy ravaged it in 1965. City planners and developers applauded as the corps not only strengthened existing levees around the city but also threw new levees far and wide, enclosing thousands of acres of undeveloped wetlands lining the new I-10 corridor. In fact, 79 percent of the estimated benefits that the corps initially used to justify the cost of the project came from the future development of those wetlands. Within a decade, Jefferson Parish had built 47,000 new housing units—modern-day Metairie and Kenner—while Orleans Parish added another 29,000 units, mostly in New Orleans East.

“It was basically a development scheme,” says Oliver Houck, a Tulane professor of environmental law who has fought other corps projects. “They put it around New Orleans East, and the developers laughed all the way to the bank.”

Captain Ed has a good point, commenting on Craig’s potential boot in butt out of the Senate.

(post link) if the (Republican) party wants to start drawing these lines, then one has to wonder why David Vitter isn’t getting the same push.

He didn’t plead guilty in court, but unlike Craig, he openly admits he broke the law and solicited prostitutes. Others serving in Congress at the moment have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors of more import than disorderly conduct without being forced to resign.

 If morality and credibility are at issue, why isn’t Vitter being held to that standard? It’s either that Louisiana’s Democratic governor would appoint a Democrat in his place, or that Vitter’s transgressions involved heterosexual sex and therefore are less objectionable.

Craig will depart soon, and these questions will fade away eventually. However, people will wonder whether the GOP decided to argue for standards in public officials, or whether they just found it easy to use Craig without endangering their political balance in the Senate.

I found the following on Talking Points Memo, via Outside the Beltway.

C’mon people; is it me, or is this society getting cruder, morally bankrupt and just plain sicker each and every damm day.
I swear until this Craig mess I had no clue about this sicko culture of bathroom perusing fudge packing creeps.
Noooooo, going to a nice bar and having a normal conversation with the hook-up of your choice whether opposite sex or same sex is apparently not enough.
The lure of inhaling the stench of human excrement and the hand touching of another nasty ass germ infested bathroom troll is I guess the new aphrodisiac.

As this post does point out, that God for the internet, the masses can at least be aware of, avoid and be on the lookout for society’s biggest weirdoes.

According to an article in today’s Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, more avid web readership might have saved Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-ID) career.

As a number of TPM Reader/Google sleuths have been telling us, there are sites out there that rate different public sex bathrooms around the country. One of them sounds sort of like it’s the Zagat’s of gay public restroom sex. And that bathroom at the Minneapolis airport is like the Spago of sex bathrooms.

In any case, this from the Strib reporters …

Another Web site lists Twin Cities-area malls, parks, health clubs and even a “cruisy toilet” at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Many postings list the best times to go and give graphic reviews of the venues.An airport bathroom, specifically one near a shoeshine stand behind the ticket counter, generated the most comments until Web-site users posted warnings in June that men were getting arrested there. Craig was arrested shortly after noon on June 11 in the main men’s public restroom of the North Star Crossing in the Lindbergh Terminal.

It’s not clear from the article exactly which review web site they’re referring to or whether the warnings about the sting showed up in advance of Craig’s June 11th arrest. But it seems that closer scrutiny of the web and available ratings sites could have kept Craig from his rendezvous with destiny.

Ya know liberals may find this hard to believe, but I am so damm sick of Shrub I can’t stand it.
So you mean to tell me now that to save his already tarnished image this idiot going to turn into a socialist and start patting people on the head and say the gubment is here to help you.

“Anybody who loses their home is somebody with whom we must show enormous empathy,”

Sure buy a home you can’t possible afford in the first place and when reality sets in have the gubment bail you out.

The same people who bitch and moan about folks being on welfare are equally  happy to hold out their hands when they are financially screwed.

I have a beautiful home, two new cars, a swimming pool, a boat; I even belong to the country club. My kids go to the best schools and lookie here at my new big screen TV.
But I have one problem, I’m in debt up to my eyeballs, Mr. Bush plez help me!

Does this look like a Hillary-style housing bailout? Because it is walking and talking and quacking like one:

Offering federal help for strapped mortgage holders, President Bush is proposing to aid hundreds of thousands of borrowers hard hit by the housing slump.

The president on Friday was to talk about several initiatives and reforms to help homeowners with risky mortgages keep their homes, a senior administration official said Thursday. Bush also was to discuss efforts to prevent these kinds of problems from arising in the future.

More from Malkin here

Plus related stuff on MM: The Democrat clamor for a housing bailout
Hillary’s socialist housing bailout plan

Old clip but I missed….
You see Ron Paul supporters this is just one of numerous reasons why I just can’t take Paul and you people seriously. Just listen to this moronic woman, she is clearly living in bizarro world.

Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will officially launch his candidacy Sept. 6 in a webcast on his campaign site.

I paid a rare trip to the Lawrence.com blogs. I don’t venture there much anymore because frankly there is not much going on, Snoop use to have some good fights there with the local liberal population. A right wing ranting politically incorrect Negro is a toxic mix here in Lawrence.

Mrs. Snoop had our friend Dot, Dot over for beers the other night and we discussed the state of the Law.com blog world and Dot made a good point, it is much harder to trash people after you have met them.

Most of the old commenter crowd has left so it does not hold the interest it once did.

I did briefly check out a short post by Jill Ensley – Godjilla entitled: I Hate Anniversaries, referring to the Katrina sad sack media fest.

She writes: It was my goal to pass this day without adding to the fodder of media-induced remembrances and page 16A coverage of New Orleans and Katrina. Just like relationships, there shouldn’t be one day we set aside just to act like decent human beings.

But, there are some things that I need to mention…

Call your congressperson.

Just because we may live a good distance away doesn’t mean we don’t have a voice or shouldn’t care. In fact, as so eloquently stated in this AP article, what happened before and after the storm (the mismanagement, the corruption, the lack of leadership, lack of healthcare and education) is the future of our cities, of America.

And the call doesn’t need to be made today, but any day. The people that are supposed to work for us, need to know that we aren’t forgetting.

Here’s the switchboard number: 202-225-3121.

She then adds in the comment section:

Oh, dammit, I couldn’t help it. Had to comment. I mean, seriously?! What is wrong with people?!

Referring to this comment by an LJ World reader: On this story

Ragingbear says…

I wish people would just shut up about Katrina already. They have milked it almost as much as 9-11. It’s just being used as a tool to serve other agendas.

Jilla replies:

MILKED it? What, is it a movie you didn’t like? A song you’ve heard way too many times? Last time I checked, people didn’t die and lose everything they owned when Rush Hour 3 came out. And what other agendas? The one where we get good schools, healthcare, and leaders that actually lead? What? That one? Yeah, bastards. How dare they want a decent place to live and a government that listens. The nerve. You’d think the good people of the Gulf Coast would just forget their dead, their still crumbled homes, and stop whining about their lack of assistance in rebuilding their lives.

You, sir, have the attention span of a gnat and the heart of a mayfly.
Hugs n’ kisses.

Ah, but Mr. Bear comes back with:

I was a victim of the Boardwalk Apartment fire. The worst fire in Lawrence history in terms to property damage. Yet everyone forgot about it within 3 months of the entire incident.

Greenburg was almost completely destroyed less than 6 months ago, yet you rarely hear about it now.

8 years ago there was an F5 tornado that cut right through Oklahoma City, destroying everything in a half mile wide swath through a densely packed area.

How about the big Tsunami? Or the recent earthquakes in China that have left thousands dead?

Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe. So were many other things. Our government failed the people then, and still are. But every time a politician wants to get in the spot light, they bring up either 9-11 or Katrina. People run around saying “But there are still houses that are flooded in New Orleans and people can’t move into their house.” Well, it’s been 2 years. Why these houses are still there is beyond idiotic. I would also challenge many so-called reports on the current state of NOLA. In case you don’t know, but most of the buildings in that town were on the verge of being condemned, or were actually condemned. Crime was rampant, corruption was so widespread that when I was there, they were cleaning out over half of the trash collecting department due to severe corruption that ran up to the Deputy Mayor. That people claim that things are somehow worse now just don’t know what it was like before.

Look beyond the French Quarter. Less than 12 blocks of new and pristine buildings that are shown as a shining example of a place that was founded as a smuggling depot and slave trading post. The rest of it was so nasty and disgusting that in some ways, Katrina left it off in better condition than it was. So shut up about Katrina already. Start addressing more pressing matters, like the people in Greenburg that are still waiting for assistance from charities that promised help long ago.

Well people I must say that I agree with Mr. Bear 100%. Shocking ain’t it! Good for Mr. Bear bravo!
I watched Oprah yesterday and she again has that prima donna Anderson Cooper on her show, asking over and over why did the black folks get fucked around by the gubment, why are people still trying to get back on their feet?

If you don’t want your feelings hurt stop reading! I’m sorry I’m like fuck NOLA and I too grow weary of hearing about how G Dub is making these people suffer and race is playing a part.

Like bear said, Greensburg was wiped the hell off the map as was much of Moore near Oklahoma City. Time and time again we see disasters and out of that come people willing to lend a hand and do the work necessary to get communities back on track.

But what was New Orleans before Katrina, failing schools, murder capital, drugs, political corruption NOLA was a fucken cesspool and who is in charge of the debacle that is and was NOLA corrupt idiot ass liberal Negros like that idiot mayor Nagin.
Shit I can’t be telling you people anything you already did not know. Maybe Jilla was clueless to plight of the NOLA Negros.

Quick note: you white people can’t say this shit, or you will be called RACIST! I thought I better remind you.

Let’s see were the Jillas, Oprah’s and Cooper’s of the world concerned when darkies were being gunned down at a record pace before nature did the right thing by naturally eradicating the criminal element. Unfortunately now they are fucking up Houston’s crime rate now.

I’m sick of sanctimonious pricks trying to guilt the rest of society into manufacturing misplaced sympathy to professional victims.

While watching Oprah there was this couple who just completed rebuilding in the 9th Ward. I’m trying to comprehend the logic of even after seeing the devastation breeched levees cause to NOLA and in particular Ward number 9, you want the gubment to send more taxpayer money to build more houses there? This is pure lunacy.

Where are all of the charities, black organizations, black professional athletes, and the other Oprah’s of the world. She is a damm billionaire and could piss out a few dollars to help the victims instead of giving her money to a political candidate that has no chance of being president. Yes, it has been two years and the place still looks like shit. Obama send money!

If NOLA was prime real estate and a place where some enterprising deep pockets dude would sink a few bucks into rebuilding there with the potential for profit, NOLA would be rebuilt tomorrow.

Look at Vegas, that city builds more new crap in a month that NOLA has in now two damm years.

There is little or no financial incentive to build there. If the 9th Ward were to be magically restored today, soon after crime drugs and murder would follow.
NOLA’s problem is the same of most major American cities run by ignorant ass corrupt black folks, lack of education, skills, babies having babies, dimwitted and absent leadership. Look at that fool in Newark New Jersey another American city hell hole.

Bitching about what is still visible in NOLA today, when you people totally ignored the murder and mayhem before the waters came is preposterous.

Any black person with any amount of common sense and the will to survive would be best served by getting as far the fuck far away from New Orleans as they could.

NOLA’s recovery can’t start until they get rid of that jackass Mayor and clean out the political corruption and stench there.
That is not American’s responsibility and nobody can guilt me into thinking otherwise.

Frank says Craig should serve out term, he should know…

By Bill Dedman
Washington Post Staff Writer - Link
August 27, 1989

Prostitute and pimp Stephen L. Gobie settled in with his “girls” in his Georgetown town house one evening in late 1987 to watch “The Mayflower Madam” on television. As Candice Bergen portrayed upscale madam Sydney Biddle Barrows, Gobie’s companions had an idea.

“The girls turned to me and said, ‘You’re just like her,’ ” Gobie recalled in an interview yesterday. “That’s when I realized that I was in the middle of a developing story that could be worth something someday. I told them, ‘One day, don’t be surprised if you see me on TV.’ “

Gobie’s dream has come true. His accusation that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) knew that Gobie had operated a prostitution service out of Frank’s Capitol Hill apartment became national news after it was first reported Friday by the Washington Times.

Frank, one of two openly gay members of Congress, confirmed Friday that he paid Gobie for sex, hired him with personal funds as an aide and wrote letters on congressional stationery on his behalf to Virginia probation officials, but Frank said he fired Gobie when he learned that clients were visiting the apartment.

Frank, a leading House liberal, likened himself to Henry Higgins, who in “Pygmalion” tries to transform a cockney waif into a member of English society. Gobie dismissed that as “garbage.” “This is not the case of the poor waif who is being sheltered,” Gobie said. “This was the first time he felt good in a relationship. Here’s a guy who didn’t have a social life until he was 45.”

Gobie’s craving for public attention also has produced an uproar in Montgomery County. Gobie said he maintained a relationship with Gabriel A. Massaro, the principal of Chevy Chase Elementary School, and used an office at the school in late 1987 to make telephone calls and have one client meet a prostitute.

Massaro, who has been placed on administrative leave, has been unavailable for comment.

Gobie said his motive was largely financial. Gobie had offered his story to WUSA-TV (Channel 9), then the Washington Times. Later he came to The Washington Post, saying he was looking “to start a bidding war” for “a better offer” than the Washington Times made. He and the Times say he was not paid.

Gobie also said he wants “to show up people in positions of power who abuse other people.”

Gobie expressed no regret for any damage done to the careers of Frank and Massaro.

Although Frank and Gobie differ in some details of their relationship, they agree on the story line. They met on April Fool’s Day 1985. The representative answered a classified ad in the Washington Blade, the local gay weekly. “Exceptionally good-looking, personable, muscular athlete is available. Hot bottom plus large endowment equals a good time.”

Then in his third term, the 45-year-old representative had not yet stated his homosexuality publicly. He paid Gobie $80 in cash for sex.

Gobie, then 28, was one of many young men “freelancing” in male prostitution. Gobie said he was born in Boston and grew up in a military family. He has felony convictions for possession of cocaine, oral sodomy and production of obscene items involving a juvenile.

Gobie and Frank say they became more friends than sexual partners. Gobie says he attended a bill-signing at the White House, and helped coach and played left field for Frank’s team in the Congressional Softball League. “I was the star player,” Gobie said.

Frank began to help Gobie financially, paying his attorney and court-ordered psychiatrist. The House member also said he hired Gobie as a personal aide, housekeeper and driver, but Gobie said that was a “cover story” concocted for probation officers.

In late 1985, Gobie says, he began to use Frank’s apartment and two other locations for prostitution. Frank knew about the prostitution all along, but it was never explicitly discussed, Gobie says.

“He knew exactly what I was doing,” Gobie said. “It was pretty obvious. If he had to come home early {from work}, he would call home to be sure the coast was clear . . . . He was living vicariously through me. He said it was kind of a thrill, and if he had been 20 years younger he might be doing the same thing.”

Frank denies that he knew, saying he learned from his landlord and kicked Gobie out in August 1987. Gobie supports this part of Frank’s story.

Gobie said his disclosures are only beginning. “I think I’ll just slap a book together. Sydney Biddle Barrows made in excess of a million. I thought ‘Capitol Offenses’ would be a nice title.”

Here are ten of the most infamous Washington sex scandals

Mrs. Snoop sent me this, I finally watched it, hilarious.
Damm dude sounds like one of the queer eye dudes…. Clinton, you naughty, naughty boy, may I touch your feet?

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June 19, 1954: A weary Sen. Lester C. Hunt (D.-Wyo) walked his Senate office.  At 61, the former Wyoming governor was serving his first term in the Senate and was by far his party’s strongest candidate to win the seat again — critical to his party, as the Senate was almost evenly split, with 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and one Independent.  But Hunt was being blackmailed — reportedly even by one of his colleagues: if he ran again, Hunt was told not so subtly, the hitherto secret police report that the senator’s son had been arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police detective in Washington DC’s Lafayette Square the year before would be made public. 

That evening, in his office, the distraught Hunt took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Published reports at the time said that Hunt’s suicide resulted “because he had cancer,” as Facts on File for 1954 says.  Seasoned Capitol Hill political reporters such as Allen Drury knew better and Hunt’s dark secret, while known to colleagues and those who covered them, remained that. 

But a few years later, when Drury wrote his epic political novel Advise and Consent, the Hunt tragedy is moved to fiction, sort of:  Sen. Brigham Anderson (R.-UT.), war hero and U.S. Senator from Utah (Drury never mentions political parties in A&C, but a senator from Utah would almost certainly have to be a conservative Republican), is being blackmailed to vote for a controversial nominee for secretary of state with the story that he had a relationship with a buddy in the military while stationed overseas in World War II.  Shaken by this and what the news will do to his wife and young daughter, Anderson takes his own life in his Senate office with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Read the rest here by John Gizzi at Human Events

More “Larry WIDE STANCE Craig” posts -  Gay Patriot has an interesting piece on the Craig mess too: Larry Craig Story–Fitting the Media Mantra on Social Conservatives - Found via the blog: Hip Hop Republicans

So I’ve been traveling since 4am on Tuesday. So as I spent yesterday away from TV and the internet, the most I knew about the world was that both Sen. Larry Craig and QB Michael Vick had admitted guilt for respective crimes. End of story (for now), I assumed.And then last night at a work event, I turned to a colleague who is also politically-connected and asked, “So what do you think about Larry Craig?” He just shook his head and said, “Wasn’t his press conference today unbelieveable?”
My jaw dropped.“No he did NOT!”, I protested. My friend: “Oh yes he did. He must have said ‘I’m not gay’ three times.”“No he did NOT!”, I said. This time I continued: “And let me guess, his wife was standing next to him?” Well, of course!

I just shook my head. “So by the end of the week, I bet he is an alcoholic, goes to rehab, and was molested by his priest,” I deduced. Unreal. Click link above for more.

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case.

I was going to post more, you can read more of this crap here if you wish.
So I guess since her campaign is giving the money to charity we should just all ignore the obvious smoking guns and let this corrupt skank engage in more campaign fraud and deceit. C’mon.

Links from Sister Toldjah….and good music video choice too!

Gateway Pundit and Stop The ACLU both have the latest details on yet another shady character involved in donating lots of money to Hillary Clinton. His name is Abdul Rehman Jinnah, and he was also wanted by law enforcement. Just keep scrolling at both places.

Malkin also has: Hillary loves fugitive moneymen Plus: Norman Hsu speaks! 

Ooooo I just love a feeding frenzy, this is frankly why I right wing bloggers are far more interesting. Left wing bloggers are too much into clichés and post ranting emotion type I hate Bush and Republicans crap, while right wing bloggers dig, and check and dig further.
Hillary and the MSM are going to have to address these “smoking guns” soon.
I have been scanning the left blog world and they are not saying shit about this.
Craig is the tantalizing blog fruit of the day still.

Sister Toldjah also has another post (in Iowa, Silky Phoney is actually ahead of Hillary and Barack:)
I think John Edwards is poised to take advantage of Mrs. Bill’s corrupt tendencies, more dirt is on the way I bet. Edwards is just happy as a clam over the past days news.
  
Sorry Hussein backers, I’ve said this from day one about the Magic Negro, I know you don’t like to hear it and it’s politically incorrect but Barrack had NO shot at getting the Democratic nomination. Even if Mrs. Bill were to drop dead today, he has no chance.
Why, you ask… well any regular reader to the Poop already knows the answer.

Via El Borak

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

Hey Johnny, you shave your fucken head and I’ll be more concerned about saving energy.
I swear the more this highbrow redneck talks the more I hate him.
He and Ron Paul are running neck and neck in the village idiot category.

 UPDATE: Here are the details on donations coming from that address in Daily City. Via Sister Toldjah.

Clinton “Experience” in Fundraising Raises New Questions - From Flopping Aces

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Found via Hot Air

Well. One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest supporters, the same one who turned up in a weird fundraising story yesterday, is officially a fugitive swindler.

The Los Angeles Times will report on this website later tonight and in Wednesday’s print editions that a major Democratic Party fundraiser named Norman Hsu is wanted by authorities for skipping out on an agreement to serve up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to grand theft swindling charges.

In an exclusive story by Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, The Times will report that for three years Hsu has been carving out a place of political and financial influence by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into Democratic Party coffers, much of the money earmarked for Sen. Hillary Clinton. He has earned the ranking of Hillraiser for pledging to raise at least $100,000 for her.

He has given to several big-name Democrats, including presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Swimmer Kennedy, too.

“He is a fugitive,” said Ronald Smetana of the California attorney general’s office. “Do you know where he is?”

Perhaps he’s in China where the rest of the Clintons’ 1996 pals fled to.

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OH-EIGHT (D): The other Hsu drops

What’s new: Dem contributor is also a fugitive

BREAKING NEWS: Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

 Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

The LA Times reports that Norman Hsu, powerful fundraiser for the Democratic party, is a wanted man “hiding in plain sight.” Declared a ‘fugitive’ by the California attorney general, Hsu is wanted for evading a jail sentence for pleading no contest to charges of grand theft swindling.

Hsu evidently faced up to three years in prison for the charge. Hsu’s lawyer, contacted Tuesday, recalls neither Hsu’s pleading to a criminal case nor facing jail time.

Over the years, Hsu has contributed to the campaigns of Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Edward Kennedy. His fundraising efforts for Hilary Clinton already total over $1 million. A spokesperson for the Clinton campaign said “We have no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them.”

This piece was written by some liberal idiot dumbass Sheldon Drobny found on the Puffington Post via Conservative Grapevine.

I can’t tell you how many idiot ass white people I have read over the past several days that keep writing these stupid ass articles about Michael Vick repeating this ridiculous notion that DOGFIGHTING IS PART OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE.

What fucken planet are you idiots getting this from?
Dog fighting is no more part of the Negro culture than is baggy pants, parking on the lawn, 40’s, hair weaves and press on nails.

Before any more of you dumbass white people keep spreading this bullshit nonsense, try having a conversation with a Negro who is not from the hood, at least a graduate from high school, employed, wearing a belt and is not named after a major kitchen appliance, a car or some faux “African” sounding name ending with “quan.”

I am a dog lover and have adopted and rescued abused dogs. I believe that inhumane treatment to animals is counter to the best interests of our society. On the other hand, I do believe in proportionate justice and the Michael Vick case is a horrible example of disproportionate justice against blacks and its consequences could be profound.There are many cultures in the world that accept and promote cruelty to animals. In some countries of Hispanic origin, bullfighting is promoted as a national sport. And dogs are eaten in some Asian countries.

It is my understanding that dog fighting is part of the African-American culture despite the fact that it is a federal crime. That does not make it right, but it does explain in part Vick’s participation in this event.

President Bush commuted the sentence of Irving “Scooter” Libby for crimes he committed knowingly which compromised our national security. Surely he could find it in his heart to use the same rationalization for commuting Libby’s sentence. If Libby paid enough of a price for his crime, surely Vick should be given the same consideration since he has lost his over $125 million and his career.

Norman Hsu is one of the leading political fund-raisers in the country this year. In fact, many fund-raisers say he is one of a small handful of people capable of raising more than $1 million — a major feat considering the maximum donation allowed by an individual for 2008 races is $4,600 per candidate.But longtime political donors are curious: “Who is Norman Hsu?” asks Robin Chandler Duke, a former ambassador and longtime supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Until three years ago, Mr. Hsu never made a campaign contribution to a presidential candidate, according to federal election records. Now, though, several people involved in raising money for White House candidates say Mr. Hsu is a major player.

Many “HillRaisers” — people who rustle up at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — are dwarfed beside Mr. Hsu (pronounced “Shu”). Several people involved in Democratic presidential fund-raising say Mr. Hsu, an apparel executive, has raised well over $1 million for the New York senator’s presidential campaign, making him one of the top 20 Democratic fund-raisers in the country. The Clinton campaign doesn’t disclose such details and declined to comment for this story.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that a modest home in a middle-class San Francisco suburb, where the family of mail carrier William Paw resides, is listed as the address for many contributions to the Clinton campaign. Mr. Hsu once listed the home as his address, according to public records, and the Paws’ donations closely tracked his.

Mr. Hsu’s lawyer, Lawrence Barcella, took issue with a connection between his client and the Paws.

“Like every fund-raiser, he asks friends, colleagues and others to support the causes and candidates he supports. That is what every fund-raiser in America for any cause — political or nonprofit — does,” Mr. Barcella said in a written statement. “And, in none of these instances, to address the WSJ innuendo, has Mr. Hsu reimbursed them for their contributions.”

Full article here

Dear Political Party Poop readers,

and to those of you who mistakenly clicked the wrong link, because I know few people actually intend to visit my insanity….

I must sadly announce that my humble blog was NOT nominated as a Black Weblog Awards finalist, shit I wasn’t even nominated. Can you believe that shit!?
Despite the efforts of my biggest FAN Mrs. Snoop and other wisecracking troll types the nominations were ceremoniously dissed.

Damm, imagine that, rejected by my own peeps. Fucken Right Wing blogs dis Poop, Left leaning types don’t like me, goddamm illegal alien blogs, Native American blogs, Kansas Blogs, Gay Blogs, Wide Stance Blogs, Mommy Blogs, Goth Blogs and now even the Negro blogs fail to recognize my plagiarized and politically incorrect editorial brilliance not to mention my photo shop skillz.

Well people I say fuck’em, fuck’em all, blog awards are a fucken scam anyway and it’s not like these sons of bitches were gonna give me a cash prize or even a box of Fruit Loops for being recognized.

As I browsed the Negro sites they were all predictable leftist, full of pictures of rappers, music celebrities, wangsta heroes Hollywood gossip bullshit.

Stories about Bush (How he destroyed NOLA), Republicans, one had a graphic of Rush, I guess he dissed Nelson Mandella.

Most sites were annoyingly wrought with shit loads of advertising and pop-ups.
Frankly this is why I did not link directly to them in this post and many were even more grammatically deficient than even I tend to be.

There was the obligatory “black dudes like white women” post, “is that a weave post” Michael Vick was railroaded post and on one site even bitching about a survey that white people are more happy than black folks. How dare you white people be satisfied with your lives, shame on you.

Yes people, I’m too conservative, too accepting of the evil white “culture” not angry enough, not into rap and hip hop as much as a 43 year old guy should be, I don’t give a shit about Hollywood gossip, who Russell Simmons is sleeping with or the latest rap music video.

Despite the disappointment I shall continue to try and seek the blogging affirmation I so vehemently try to avoid.
For those of you who read the Poop on a regular basis I shall continue to deliver the low quality blogging standards, course language, inappropriate pictures, the mocking of idiot Negro buffoonery and liberal nonsense you come to appreciate.

Peace, Snoop

Maintaining her tradition of shady fundraising practices, Hillary Clinton has received questionable donations from a wealthy New York businessman who has avoided contribution limits by funneling the money through associates and friends he later reimbursed.The rich businessman, Norman Hsu, is actually an official “HillRaiser” because he is one of a few hundred supporters who pledged to raise $100,000 or more for Clinton’s presidential campaign. It turns out that he has recruited friends and associates to donate thousands of dollars that they later got reimbursed for.

The illegal practice allows top donors to skirt a 2002 law that sets campaign contribution limits. For the 2008 election, individuals can give a maximum of $4,600 per candidate and a total of $108,200 per election to all federal candidates and political parties. This severely limits wealthy and influential supporters such as Hsu, a successful apparel industry businessman who has raised thousands for Clinton over the years.

Hsu and his friends have given Clinton $133,000 since 2005. On four separate dates this year Hsu, five of his associates and a blue-collar California family of modest means donated $47,500 to Clinton’s presidential campaign. The northern California family’s hefty donation is especially suspicious since it lives in a working-class suburb and is headed by a 64-year-old postal worker who earns less than $50,000 a year.

In fact, a former Federal Election Commission (FEC) official says the agency should investigate the Hsu-connected donations for violations of campaign finance laws, which specifically forbid one person from reimbursing another to make contributions.

Clinton has already been fined for violating federal election rules during her senate campaign. In response to a Judicial Watch complaint, the FEC fined the New York Senator $35,000 last year for concealing more than $700,000 in contributions during a 2000 senate fundraiser. The agency clearly needs to keep a close eye on the former First Lady.

Here is an interesting link I found via Wizbang - A rundown of some of the Clinton’s past campaign finance woes courtesy of the NYT.

Article: Vick ‘reaction’ has racial aspect - Link
By Dan Le Batard

We are watching Michael Vick’s glorious life fall apart on TV. The details of his cruelty to dogs are shocking, nauseating and illegal. He is wrong, case closed. To defend him is to defend the indefensible, and the felonious. If a white quarterback such as Peyton Manning had been at the center of this, he would become just as radioactive, maybe more so.How could anyone take any other side on something this black and white?

If you are asking that, you must have missed that little trial involving O.J. Simpson.

There is so much baggage and history and emotion and volume here that a lot gets lost in translation. I don’t hear many black people defending Vick’s actions today. What I hear is many black people objecting to the size and intensity of the reaction. Those are two very different things. But they start to sound the same when white people yell with disgust, ”Not the race card again!” and black people counter with, ”Race impacts everything.” Not a lot gets heard clearly when people are trying to talk while standing that far apart.

And the louder and angrier the reaction gets, the more pressure is put on authorities — usually white authorities — to make an example out of a black icon.

Quibble with our country’s laws if you like, but you have to abide by them if you want to be free here. That’s nonnegotiable, and it is going to get Vick jailed. But it is after that when things get muddier. The question isn’t whether Vick should lose money or freedom today. The question becomes how much of his money and freedom he should lose. The difference there is between penalizing a black icon and ruining him.

It makes sense, based on past history and personal experiences, that black folks might not trust the system to treat one of their own fairly once we go from letter-of-the-law jail to subjective suspension.

The people making the decisions about how much of his life Vick gets to keep post-jail are white and applying their sensibilities — which is how you arrive at rules that ban the black athletes who like to celebrate from dancing too much in the end zone. All the team owners and the commissioner are white, as are the richest of Vick’s endorsers and most of the consumers of all this product. You’ll forgive black people if they aren’t terribly comfortable with white people making the rules for them. That hasn’t gone so well in the past.

Then there’s this: The white athlete tends to get more room to rehab his image than the black one. There is no black equivalent to reckless addict golfer John Daly, throwing away talent but nonetheless popular and embraced. Some of that has to do with Daly harming only himself, not teammates or fans of that team, but not all of it. Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden aren’t perceived quite like drunk heroes Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin. Some of that has to do with Mantle’s more innocent era, but not all of it.

It would be interesting to see the reaction if it were an NBA team instead of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals (Tony La Russa, DUI arrest; Josh Hancock, drunk-driving death; Scott Spiezio, rehab) that had the substance-abuse problem. Would they feel more like the Bengals? And how is the reaction different if Michael Doleac, Chris Quinn and Jason Kapono fought fans in Detroit instead of three giant black guys with braids and tattoos? Have you noticed how differently basketball fights are covered than baseball brawls? Is the pressure and penalty as large on Quinn as it was on Ron Artest? If the action is exactly the same, is the reaction?

COMPASSION FACTOR

Race doesn’t always amplify the noise around a national scandal. The Beltway Sniper was black and randomly killed 10 people, and you didn’t hear folks taking sides on that one. But that’s the exception, not the rule. Vick makes for a bad martyr, but it is human nature to feel sorry for your own while watching him beat up daily on television as his life unravels. That’s not racism. It is compassion. And human.

Our experiences always shape our perspectives. We saw it with O.J. Simpson. Blacks were so thrilled to finally beat what they saw as an unfair system — a system that jails them at a disproportionate rate — that the thrill of winning ignored even someone getting away with murder. When the distrust is that large and pervasive, it is going to seep into some places it doesn’t belong — like, for example, this Vick case.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Dogfighting is glorified in segments of the hip-hop community, so there are some cultural differences that complicate matters here. There isn’t much of a difference between killing dogs for sport and the art of bullfighting.

You are walking a thin line if you see a lot of distinction between pitting dogs bred to fight and shooting a deer just to put the head up in your office. Go to Hialeah, and you’ll see that one man’s cruelty to animals is another man appeasing his god. Heck, our own states can’t agree. Dogfighting is but a misdemeanor in two of them. Vick couldn’t have known dogfighting had consequences this large or he wouldn’t have been doing it. And it can be jarring to see one of your own lose his livelihood and freedom and name for something that isn’t a lot different than bullfighting.

This isn’t to say dogfighting is a black thing. It isn’t. It is an illegal thing. It is just to point out that there are shades of gray in here even as we discuss black and white.

And you are more likely to find them only if you are interested in doing so.

Is this some sort of weird gay bathroom sex code ritual that I have managed to miss?

Damm am I going to have to be on the lookout for men’s restroom weirdoes trolling toilet stalls? Damm, taking a shit in a public restroom is hard enough and in the majority of cases grosses me the hell out because way too many of you people are a bunch of nasty ass bastards and I bet Craig didn’t even wash his nasty ass hands. U sick bastard!

Michelle on the Larry Craig bathroom feet touching saga

Update: The Idaho Statesman has two detailed articles. The first recaps the Minnesota incident. The second is a five-month investigative piece into Craig’s past alleged acts of indecency and solicitation dating back to 1982, when an underage page made allegations that he had had sex with three House members.

ABC News has the docs from the Minnesota incident.

Any takers on a Larry Craig Resignation Date/Time Betting Pool?

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What a weasel.

He plays the “Don’t you know who I am?” game by whipping out his Senate business card. He pleads guilty. Then he blames the police for misunderstanding him and “misconstruing” all his bathroom antics.

Bleccch.

Let me amend my reaction. He’s not just a weasel.

He’s a lying crapweasel.

Should he resign? Well, yeah. If he cared about the dignity of his office, he would. But he obviously doesn’t, does he?

Found the following on Kos:  - Idaho Statesman article:Men’s room arrest reopens questions about Sen. Larry Craig

In an interview on May 14, Craig told the Idaho Statesman he’d never engaged in sex with a man or solicited sex with a man. The Craig interview was the culmination of a Statesman investigation that began after a blogger accused Craig of homosexual sex in October. Over five months, the Statesman examined rumors about Craig dating to his college days and his 1982 pre-emptive denial that he had sex with underage congressional pages.The most serious finding by the Statesman was the report by a professional man with close ties to Republican officials. The 40-year-old man reported having oral sex with Craig at Washington’s Union Station, probably in 2004. The Statesman also spoke with a man who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him at the University of Idaho in 1967 and a man who said Craig “cruised” him for sex in 1994 at the REI store in Boise. The Statesman also explored dozens of allegations that proved untrue, unclear or unverifiable….

In the hourlong May 14 interview, Craig was accompanied by his wife, Suzanne. He specifically and generally denied ever engaging in any homosexual conduct.

During that interview, the Statesman played Craig an audiotape of the man claiming that he and Craig had sex in the Union Station restroom. Like the Minnesota airport restroom, the Union Station restroom is known as a place where men can find anonymous sex.

Craig denied the man’s account and said, “I am not gay and I have never been in a restroom in Union Station having sex with anybody.

“There’s a very clear bottom line here,” Craig said. “I don’t do that kind of thing. I am not gay, and I never have been.”

Craig’s accuser spoke to the Statesman on the condition he not be named. The man said he was sure it was Craig he had oral sex with but said he had no evidence other than his word.

Craig also denied the claims of the two other men that he made sexual advances to them.

One man, who was considering pledging with Craig’s fraternity at the U of I in 1967, said Craig took him to his room and made what the man said he took to be an invitation to sex. Responding to that allegation in May, Craig said, “I don’t hit on any men.”

Another man said that in November 1994 Craig “cruised” him at the REI store in Boise. The man, who is gay, told the Statesman that Craig stared at him in a sexually inviting way and followed him around REI for a half-hour. Said Craig: “Once again, I’m not gay, and I don’t cruise, and I don’t hit on men. I have no idea how he drew that conclusion. A smile? Here is one thing I do out in public: I make eye contact, I smile at people, they recognize me, they say, ‘Oh, hi, Senator.’ Or, ‘Do I know you?’

“I’ve been in this business 27 years in the public eye here. I don’t go around anywhere hitting on men, and by God, if I did, I wouldn’t do it in Boise, Idaho! Jiminy!”….

Much more here