Compare the editorials in today’s Seattle Times and New York Times and you’ll understand why the intelligent, educated parts of the country consider our fair city a cultural backwater.
Here’s what Frank Blethen/Kate Riley et al. said:
“Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was late out of the gate in offering an apology for his dumb remark earlier this week, but he finally gave one yesterday to the men and women in the U.S. military … the issue is not whether a person makes a mistake, but how he or she handles it … an apology should come quickly. Kerry’s came belatedly. …
“Democrat Kerry, who nine days out of 10 is not funny anyway, said, ‘You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.’
“His prepared text showed he meant to say those who aren’t academically well-prepared might end up getting the country stuck in a war, as President Bush has done. … That position held a few hours, then Kerry said he meant no offense to our troops …. (M)ilitary men and women … may have fewer choices in life. They deserve better. Kerry’s apology, however belated, was appropriate.”
“Editorial
“The Great Divider
“Published: November 2, 2006
“As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.
“Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.
“It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.
“But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.
“This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.”
Roger Rabbit Comment: The New York Times got its focus right. The Seattle Times thinks Kerry’s bonehead gaffe is worth more ink than Bush’s failures. Frank and Kate — you suck.
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For the Cluelessspews:
Wingnuts:
For your enjoyment I present to you, your Dear Leader’s trusted advisor on “moral” and “spiritual” issues…
Richard Pope now has both the King County Bar Association and the Seattle Times riding his ass:
“Candidate’s Web site breaks rules, says bar association
“By Sonia Krishnan
“Seattle Times Eastside bureau
“The King County Bar Association accused Richard Pope, candidate for King County District Court judge, of violating its campaign-conduct guidelines for judicial office in a statement released Wednesday.
“The association’s board of trustees determined that Pope ‘”had no factual basis’ for statements made on his Web site and in the King County voters guide. At issue is Pope’s statement that his opponent, Frank LaSalata, ‘will not enforce [Washington’s] drunk driving laws’ and ‘will not permit alcohol breath test results to be admitted into evidence.’ The board called the statements ‘misleading.’
“Pope said he wasn’t surprised …. ‘The King County Bar Association does not support my candidacy for district court judge,’ Pope said. ‘They’re supportive of Mr. LaSalata. My language is being condemned by them because they’re afraid it will be effective for the voters.’ Pope said he has since changed the site’s wording.”
This article is excerpted under Fair Use! For complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/y4o2xh
Roger Rabbit Comment: Hey Richard — if KCBA is wrong why did you change your web site? Check the box that applies:
[ ] 1. Changing my web site is a tacit admission that their criticism is valid.
[ ] 2. Changing my web site proves I lack enough courage of conviction to stand up for myself even when I’m right.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
Dear Richard,
I voted for your OPPONENT. I think you’ll agree that we need to put the best people available on the bench. He’s more qualified than you … sooooo … I voted for HIM. Sorry. I mean, you talk a good game and I’m especially impressed with your solicitude (on this board) for defendants’ constitutional rights. We have enough arbitrary detention in the executive branch without expanding those practices to the judicial branch too. Buuuuuut … a District Court judge also is an administrative position, and while I don’t give a rat’s ass how you run your personal life, you need to demonstrate that you can run a law practice before asking us to give you the responsibility of running a court! When you’ve completed your mental health therapy, resolved your divorce quarrels, and have your office running like a Swiss watch, we’ll talk again.
That’s why I caucused for him (in the first round).
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Kspews:
Yet another reason for a change in Congress
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office
“It appears to me that the administration wants to silence the messenger that is giving us information about waste and fraud in Iraq,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform.
Joe Fuiten’s “church” is the U.S. equivalent of a fundie Islamic madrass.
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Foxworthyspews:
If you come across as dumb and stupid while accusing others of being dumb and stupid, you just might be a democrat.
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headless lucyspews:
re 51: We haven’t accused you so much of being stupid (although you are) but of being a dishonest crook with no insight into your own complete mendacity.
Stupidity I can forgive, criminal meanness, I can’t.
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For the Cluelessspews:
Another Republican POS, a “family values” conservative, pays his mistress 500k to keep quiet about his whoring, abusive ways until after the election.
I can’t see how anyone can stay on the fence about these corrupt wingnut Republicans. Vote the bastards out.
Vote Democratic.
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Foxworthyspews:
If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat.
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RightEqualsStupidspews:
It’s good to see the world pointing out the simple face that Dickie is a total fuck up in no way capable of being a judge.
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GSspews:
Heh Mr Clark? (Knock Knock on the head)
You think the terrorists want to see Democrats elected?
Will Terrorism subside then? (Knock Knock on the head)
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Wingnutspews:
If you engage in gay sex while preaching against it – you just might be a Republican.
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Wingnutspews:
If you take money from tribal gambling interests to buy quid pro quos from Republicans like Bob Ney, you just might be a Republican.
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Wingnutspews:
If you all of a sudden lose 8 billion dollars of American taxpayer money in Iraq and can’t account for it, you just might be a Republican.
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Wingnutspews:
If you preach about the virtues of free markets and then impose steel tariffs to buy votes in contravention to free trade agreements, you just might be a Republican.
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headless lucyspews:
If you are a sellout and have given up on your dreams, you might just be a Republican.
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Foxworthyspews:
If you complain about voter fraud but dont support a voter ID at the polls, you just might be a democrat.
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Foxworthyspews:
If your candidate mysteriously picks up votes that were just discovered on the third recount, you just might be a democrat.
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The Socialistspews:
Experts say new voter identification laws in 12 states could influence the outcome of close races.
Here is the situation on the Voter Pamphlet Statement and the King County “Bar” Association:
Frank LaSalata had been regularly refusing to admit the alcohol breath test as evidence in drunk driving cases. He was proud of doing so, and indeed campaigned on this issue (at least to his fellow lawyers). In his KCBA Judicial Candidate Questionnaire, LaSalata listed his decisions as a substitute judge rejecting alcohol breath tests as the most important accomplishments of his entire legal career:
On September 28, 2006, King County Elections asked both myself and Mr. LaSalata to submit new Voters Pamphlet statements for the general election. Both of us had criticized Judge Mary Ann Ottinger in our primary statements, and it would have looked interesting for us to have appeared in the general election with the same statements. The deadline for new statements was close of business on September 29, 2006.
(I think Mr. LaSalata was the impetus for this. His statement had two out of five paragraphs criticizing Judge Ottinger by name. Mine had one of four paragraphs criticizing her, but I had carefully referred to her only as the “incumbent”, instead of by name, just in case she happened to get eliminated in the primary.)
I knew that Mr. LaSalata would personally attack me, like he had Judge Ottinger. So I basically changed one paragraph to include facts about Mr. LaSalata, instead of Judge Ottinger, which I made the second paragraph of four:
“Frank LaSalata won’t enforce our drunk driving laws. He won’t allow alcohol breath tests as evidence. His campaign contributions are mostly from drunk driving and criminal defense lawyers. LaSalata recently moved here from Friday Harbor, where his home was foreclosed on August 12, 2005.”
Six days after I submitted my Voter Pamphlet statement, and after it had already been sent to the printers, the Washington Supreme Court rendered its decision in City of Fircrest v. Jensen on October 5, 2006. The Jensen decision held that the alcohol breath test law was constitutional, and rejected the legal reasoning that Mr. LaSalata had been using to keep these tests from being admitted as evidence in drunk driving cases:
The Voters Pamphlet was distributed beginning on October 13, 2006, eight days after the Jensen decision was rendered.
Based on the Jensen decision, Mr. LaSalata’s supporters are now saying that he will no longer routinely refuse to admit alcohol breath tests as evidence. They complained to the KCBA, saying that my Voter Pamphlet statement was misleading, because it implied that Mr. LaSalata would refuse to honor the Washington Supreme Court decision in City of Fircrest v. Jensen.
After the City of Fircrest v. Jensen decision, I changed the wording in my campaign literature and website to the past tense. So now I am using language to the following effect:
“Frank LaSalata has not enforced our drunk driving laws. He did not admit alcohol breath tests into evidence. He lists his decisions as a substitute judge to reject alcohol breath tests as the most important accomplishments of his legal career.
Frank LaSalata is highly popular with drunk driving and criminal defense lawyers. These same lawyers have also provided the majority of his campaign contributions.”
And of course, I go into considerable detail on my website about the circumstances under which Mr. LaSalata’s home in Friday Harbor was sold at foreclosure on August 12, 2005. Excellent personal financial management by someone making approximately $100,000 per year working as a “full-time substitute judge”!
The King County “Bar” Association is a voluntary association of lawyers in King County. Less than 30% of the attorneys in King County choose to belong to this organization. I am in the majority group, and like over 70% of King County lawyers, have no use for this organization.
The KCBA supported Mr. LaSalata based upon his decisions in drunk driving cases to reject the alcohol breath tests as evidence. So it is not surprising that they would condemn me for my Voters Pamphlet statement, based on the intervening Washington Supreme Court decision somehow making Mr. LaSalata look like he would be a scofflaw.
It would have been more appropriate for the KCBA to admit that my legal opinions regarding breath alcohol tests were correct, and Mr. LaSalata’s opinions were wrong — as seven of the nine members of the Washington Supreme Court decided in the City of Jensen v. Fircrest decision.
The Seattle Times doesn’t support my candidacy either. So they made it look like I had changed my website in response to the KCBA statement, rather than telling the public that the Washington Supreme Court had determined that I was right and Mr. LaSalata was wrong.
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Foxworthyspews:
If killing babies are a choice but are against school choice, you just might be a democrat.
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The Socialistspews:
Wal-Mart Returns to Basics
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Having tried its hand at being hip, retailer reverts to a more familiar approach: slashing prices.
I am very poor BUt I will never ever ever shop at wall mart
Untill they let there worker unionize like they allow in china wall marts
I say If it is good enuff for the communist chinnies wall mart workers it is good enough for the american ones are the rest of the world.
Thank The Socialist has approved this add
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Foxworthyspews:
If you are to dumb to carry the right ID to the polls to vote but yet are running for office, you just might be a democrat. hehehe
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The Socialistspews:
24#
yeah I wish they would have flushed you thats for sure
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The Socialistspews:
lets get back to talking about the sick gay homersexuily minister prevert meth addict that has to buy sex from men.
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The Socialistspews:
I vote bye mail dip shit I don’t have to show my id anyways dumb fuck and people all ready had to show there voter registration card at the polles shit for brains
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The Socialistspews:
Communists
Those who actively support the interests of the working-class as a whole, without any kind of prejudice. Communists live to unite workers, instead of divide them along imaginery lines, whether based on gender, nationality, race, or ideology.
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The Socialistspews:
“In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?
The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.
“They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mold the proletarian movement.
“The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only:
(1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.
(2) In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
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Foxworthyspews:
If your party tries to keep the military from voting, you just might be a democrat.
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LiberalRedneckspews:
I love doing the JCH adult-onset ADD every once in a while:
The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.
The Rev. Ted Haggard, a married father of five who has been called one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the nation, denied the allegations. His accuser refused to share voice mails that he said backed up his claim.
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The Socialistspews:
we want the military to vote were counting on them
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Foxworthyspews:
If you ever thought your party got shafted in Florida only to lose the same state four years later by over 300,000 votes, you just might be a democrat.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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See 11 et al.
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Foxworthyspews:
If you feel that your candidate got robbed when losing by over 120,000 votes but feel a 129 vote win on the third recount was fair, you just might be a democrat. heheheeheh
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat.
Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 9:23 pm
This is a joke, right? Clinton wasn’t squeaky clean, but he’s a saint compared to Bush.
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The Socialistspews:
Nixon is a saint compared to bush
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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It’s good to see the world pointing out the simple face that Dickie is a total fuck up in no way capable of being a judge.
Commentby RightEqualsStupid— 11/2/06@ 9:28 pm
The case of Richard Pope is very sad. He’s obviously very bright and has accomplished a lot by getting through law school, practicing law, trying at least to be a family man, and going into the public arena to run for office as many times as he has. What a tragedy he couldn’t keep it together. Being a Republican must have corroded something inside his head. His mother should have warned him to stay away from Republicans.
If you complain about voter fraud but dont support a voter ID at the polls, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 10:45 pm
More bullshit from a wingnut blowing smoke out of his ass! Tell us Foxworthy, what “problem” is voter ID supposed to solve? Imposters voting under someone else’s name? Can you show me one case, anywhere, where that has happened? Let’s be honest now, voter ID serves only one purpose and that’s to keep people from voting in Democratic precincts. Fuck you, you un-America, anti-democracy, piece of shit! I fought a war to defend freedoms you want to take away. You’re no better than a commie.
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The Socialistspews:
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Irish poet and playwrite who was also a socialist.
[Biography]
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) Irish writer and playwrite, comrade of Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, and William Morris, later joined the Fabian society, a circle of intellectuals who advocated reform to avoid revolution.
[Biography]
H.G. Wells
(1866-1946) Radical science fiction author who used his novels to warn of the dangers of capitalism.
wow look at all these great guys that were Socialist to :-)
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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Richard, thanks for the reply, and I have bad news for you — I think your NEW voters pamphlet statement IS misleading. Why? Because you continue to paint LaSalata in a light of his past rulings without mentioning the fact a recent WSC has changed the whole situation. Of course he’s going to follow precedent. If he doesn’t, he shouldn’t be elected, or if elected, should be removed. Do you have some reason to believe he won’t? If not, you’re campaigning against him based on his previous legal position on the issue which is no longer extant. And that ain’t square.
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The Socialistspews:
43 HEY
IM A COMMUNIST SO SHUT UP RABBIT
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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If killing babies are a choice but are against school choice, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:01 pm
If you cared 1/100th as much about people after they’re born as you do about people before they’re born, you’d be a Democrat.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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If you are to dumb to carry the right ID to the polls to vote but yet are running for office, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:06 pm
There’s no IQ test for voting. (Lucky for Republicans.) There’s no literacy requirement, or poll tax, either. The only requirements for voting are those specified in the state and federal constitutions, and you aren’t entitled to add any. This isn’t negotiable. If you do, we’re going to have a civil war.
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The Socialistspews:
There is nuthing wrong with communisum.
NO sytem works even democrisy if you get a totalitarean dictator as a leader
I mean Sadum was elected you no .
The soviet union and chinnia and the rest are no more real communistes then Sadum Husan was a Demercratic president
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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If your party tries to keep the military from voting, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:18 pm
You’re blowing smoke out of your ass. King County counted 15,000 military/overseas votes in 2004. Only 16 weren’t counted because they arrived too late and that wasn’t KC’s fault. Any soldier who didn’t get his absentee ballot could have obtained a Federal Write In Ballot from his Voting Assistance Officer, and 1,300 Washington voters did so in 2004. King County mailed every single military/overseas ballot on time, every last one. You’re a fucking liar.
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The Socialistspews:
Most country around the word are working to be more socialist not less you no
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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IM A COMMUNIST SO SHUT UP RABBIT Commentby The Socialist— 11/2/06@ 11:37 pm
I don’t take orders from commies.
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The Socialistspews:
I mean why is our oil idustry not nationelised. You would think sence oil is so importaint that it should be nationelized like our water and electricity is in most places.
I mean people are dieing for oil don’t you think it should be under the goverments control.
It would make gas allot cheaper for one thing. And in stead of all these billiones of dolleres going in to some fat cat capitolist pigs pocket it would be going to help the whole country pay down the det and invest in the futer
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The Socialistspews:
I don’t take orders from rabbit!!!
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The Socialistspews:
weres elmer fudd when you need him?
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Richard Popespews:
Roger Rabbit @ 40
She did.
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The Socialistspews:
If you would actuily go read marx with an open mind you would see like I did he was right
ANd every thing he talkes about is still happening to day. you can see it all around us with out sorcing of jobs to importing of illigal imergrans to drive down the cost of laber.
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The Socialistspews:
Beciades as far as the right wingers are conserned you are a liberal communist socialist anyways
there demonizing you just like they did the socialist of the last century. They have to so they can hold on to power and make as much money as they can
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The Socialistspews:
Capitolizum has nuthing to do with democrisy. As you can see bye china they are capitolist now with out democrisy.
capitolisum probibly works better in a dictatorship envirerment like china.
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Foxworthyspews:
This is a joke, right? Clinton wasn’t squeaky clean, but he’s a saint compared to Bush.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 11/2/06@ 11:24 pm
1. CRIME STATS
– Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
– Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
– Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
– Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
– Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
– Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
– Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
– Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
– Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
– Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
– Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
– First president sued for sexual harassment.
– First president accused of rape.
– First first lady to come under criminal investigation
– Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
– First president to establish a legal defense fund.
– First president to be held in contempt of court
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
– First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
1. OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
If you still dont believe that Clinton was the most corrupt president ever after all this, then you are a democrat.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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I don’t take orders from rabbit!!! Commentby The Socialist— 11/2/06@ 11:50 pm
That makes us even. Now go fuck yourself.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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She should have warned you to stay away from the law, too.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
I wish that I had stayed away from the law! Should’ve got an engineering degree. Then I could live like Redneck — in a real trailer park instead of a hole in the ground in a public park. Too late now.
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Richard Popespews:
Roger Rabbit @ 64
Makes two of us.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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– Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
– Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
Well whaddaya know! When Democrats are in power, they prosecute their own crooks. Wish the Republicans would, instead of lying and covering up.
– The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
Those grounds aren’t in the Constitution, which is why he was acquitted.
– If you still dont believe that Clinton was the most corrupt president ever after all this, then you are a democrat.
Probably 75% of the presidents before 1900 have got him beat, and so does every president after 2000.
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Roger Rabbitspews:
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What the hell are you doing up this time of night, Richard? Don’t you have to work tomorrow? Aren’t you running a political campaign?
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Richard Popespews:
Roger Rabbit @ 66
Bill Clinton is extremely intelligent. He is personally likeable. He was a good administrator. And many people think he was an excellent President.
Would Bill Clinton make a good judge?
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Mark the Welsherspews:
Another classic from my boyfriend, Yo:
WELL LIBERALREDNECK FOR SUCH A SMALL OBSCURE ELECTION GOLGY WAS SURE PUSHING IT.
YOU GUY WILL NOT TAKE BACK THE SENANATE OR THE HOUSE IN 06 SO EAT SHIT AND BARK AT THE MOON.
AND IF I HAD A SHIT EATING DOG THE WOULD HAVE TO SEND YOUR SHOES HOME.LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS
Commentby YO— 3/29/06@ 4:29 pm
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Daddy Lovespews:
12 Foxworthy
“If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat. ”
Republicans weren’t talking about it either. They were too busy honing their plans to jump onto the money train and then replace the engineer and corner the market on coal. Now that it’s fucking out of control/b> under your greasy, greedy stewardship, The People whose will you disdain are fighting back the only way they can: re-insituting divided government and two-party rule gain to ensure the oversight for which your boys ABANDONED their reponsibility.
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Daddy Lovespews:
Oh, well.
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Dazed and Confusedspews:
Americans would be better off if they included as part of political candidate qualifications an affidavit stating the candidate has at least once completed the Saturday, or even Sunday, New York Times crossword puzzle in ink, unassisted.
Thumbs Up from me Goldy – and you will know why. I don’t normally comment at your blog – you have quite a raucas crowd here, and it looks like they enjoy playing off each other and showing each other up so I say let em play. Goldy, you well know I tend to see the serious side of the political issues facing our family with our two returning Iraq veterans facing multiple deployments. Anyway, thought I’d give you some kudos for sharing the video from those great Iraq veterans at VoteVets. Oh, and yes, General Wesley Clark too.
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JCH [Pennsylvania]spews:
Republicans WIN next week!!! Thank you, John “ The Troops Are Dum Fucks” Kerry!!!!!!
22 million Rush listeners and 22 million vets and their families will ALL vote Republican next week!!!
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JCH [Pennsylvania]spews:
Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooslims for Democrats!!! “Guvment” union hacks for Democrats!!! Black 4th generation welfare families for Democrats!!! [ “Gotsa keep the motha f*ckin check comin!!!!!”]
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RollingThunderBlogspews:
We should be afraid of terrorism because of Iraq? How does that make sense?
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David Wrightspews:
Focus groups run by marketing consultants conclude that the word “terrorism” makes people vote Republican, while the word “Iraq” makes people vote Democrat. So we get shallow Republican ads says saying “terrorism, terrorism, terrorism…” and shallow Democratic ads (like this one) saying “Iraq, Iraq, Iraq…”.
Maybe if we went back to only letting wealthy people vote the level of political discourse would improve.
Roger Rabbit spews:
WHY THE SEATTLE TIMES IS A BUSH LEAGUE PAPER
Compare the editorials in today’s Seattle Times and New York Times and you’ll understand why the intelligent, educated parts of the country consider our fair city a cultural backwater.
Here’s what Frank Blethen/Kate Riley et al. said:
“Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was late out of the gate in offering an apology for his dumb remark earlier this week, but he finally gave one yesterday to the men and women in the U.S. military … the issue is not whether a person makes a mistake, but how he or she handles it … an apology should come quickly. Kerry’s came belatedly. …
“Democrat Kerry, who nine days out of 10 is not funny anyway, said, ‘You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.’
“His prepared text showed he meant to say those who aren’t academically well-prepared might end up getting the country stuck in a war, as President Bush has done. … That position held a few hours, then Kerry said he meant no offense to our troops …. (M)ilitary men and women … may have fewer choices in life. They deserve better. Kerry’s apology, however belated, was appropriate.”
http://tinyurl.com/yds9wt
Here’s what the New York Times said:
“Editorial
“The Great Divider
“Published: November 2, 2006
“As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.
“In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.
“Mr. Bush has been pushing these divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Mr. Kerry warned college students that the punishment for not learning your lessons was to “get stuck in Iraq.” In context, it was obviously an attempt to disparage Mr. Bush’s intelligence. That’s impolitic and impolite, but it’s not as bad as Mr. Bush’s response. Knowing full well what Mr. Kerry meant, the president and his team cried out that the senator was disparaging the troops. It was a depressing replay of the way the Bush campaign Swift-boated Americans in 2004 into believing that Mr. Kerry, who went to war, was a coward and Mr. Bush, who stayed home, was a hero.
“It’s not the least bit surprising or objectionable that Mr. Bush would hit the trail hard at this point, trying to salvage his party’s control of Congress and, by extension, his last two years in office. And we’re not naïve enough to believe that either party has been running a positive campaign that focuses on the issues.
“But when candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.
“This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.”
http://tinyurl.com/y7c3m3
Roger Rabbit Comment: The New York Times got its focus right. The Seattle Times thinks Kerry’s bonehead gaffe is worth more ink than Bush’s failures. Frank and Kate — you suck.
For the Clueless spews:
Wingnuts:
For your enjoyment I present to you, your Dear Leader’s trusted advisor on “moral” and “spiritual” issues…
The Reverend Ted Haggard.
Roger Rabbit spews:
POOR RICHARD JUST CAN’T CATCH A BREAK!
Richard Pope now has both the King County Bar Association and the Seattle Times riding his ass:
“Candidate’s Web site breaks rules, says bar association
“By Sonia Krishnan
“Seattle Times Eastside bureau
“The King County Bar Association accused Richard Pope, candidate for King County District Court judge, of violating its campaign-conduct guidelines for judicial office in a statement released Wednesday.
“The association’s board of trustees determined that Pope ‘”had no factual basis’ for statements made on his Web site and in the King County voters guide. At issue is Pope’s statement that his opponent, Frank LaSalata, ‘will not enforce [Washington’s] drunk driving laws’ and ‘will not permit alcohol breath test results to be admitted into evidence.’ The board called the statements ‘misleading.’
“Pope said he wasn’t surprised …. ‘The King County Bar Association does not support my candidacy for district court judge,’ Pope said. ‘They’re supportive of Mr. LaSalata. My language is being condemned by them because they’re afraid it will be effective for the voters.’ Pope said he has since changed the site’s wording.”
This article is excerpted under Fair Use! For complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/y4o2xh
Roger Rabbit Comment: Hey Richard — if KCBA is wrong why did you change your web site? Check the box that applies:
[ ] 1. Changing my web site is a tacit admission that their criticism is valid.
[ ] 2. Changing my web site proves I lack enough courage of conviction to stand up for myself even when I’m right.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Dear Richard,
I voted for your OPPONENT. I think you’ll agree that we need to put the best people available on the bench. He’s more qualified than you … sooooo … I voted for HIM. Sorry. I mean, you talk a good game and I’m especially impressed with your solicitude (on this board) for defendants’ constitutional rights. We have enough arbitrary detention in the executive branch without expanding those practices to the judicial branch too. Buuuuuut … a District Court judge also is an administrative position, and while I don’t give a rat’s ass how you run your personal life, you need to demonstrate that you can run a law practice before asking us to give you the responsibility of running a court! When you’ve completed your mental health therapy, resolved your divorce quarrels, and have your office running like a Swiss watch, we’ll talk again.
Sincerely,
a concerned rabbit
Roger Rabbit spews:
ONLY 5 MORE DAYS!
http://tinyurl.com/opkdy
CarlBallard spews:
That’s why I caucused for him (in the first round).
K spews:
Yet another reason for a change in Congress
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office
“It appears to me that the administration wants to silence the messenger that is giving us information about waste and fraud in Iraq,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11.....artner=AOL
They do not want the truth
Roger Rabbit spews:
Joe Fuiten’s “church” is the U.S. equivalent of a fundie Islamic madrass.
Foxworthy spews:
If you come across as dumb and stupid while accusing others of being dumb and stupid, you just might be a democrat.
headless lucy spews:
re 51: We haven’t accused you so much of being stupid (although you are) but of being a dishonest crook with no insight into your own complete mendacity.
Stupidity I can forgive, criminal meanness, I can’t.
For the Clueless spews:
Another Republican POS, a “family values” conservative, pays his mistress 500k to keep quiet about his whoring, abusive ways until after the election.
It didn’t work out.
I can’t see how anyone can stay on the fence about these corrupt wingnut Republicans. Vote the bastards out.
Vote Democratic.
Foxworthy spews:
If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat.
RightEqualsStupid spews:
It’s good to see the world pointing out the simple face that Dickie is a total fuck up in no way capable of being a judge.
GS spews:
Heh Mr Clark? (Knock Knock on the head)
You think the terrorists want to see Democrats elected?
Will Terrorism subside then? (Knock Knock on the head)
Wingnut spews:
If you engage in gay sex while preaching against it – you just might be a Republican.
Wingnut spews:
If you take money from tribal gambling interests to buy quid pro quos from Republicans like Bob Ney, you just might be a Republican.
Wingnut spews:
If you all of a sudden lose 8 billion dollars of American taxpayer money in Iraq and can’t account for it, you just might be a Republican.
Wingnut spews:
If you preach about the virtues of free markets and then impose steel tariffs to buy votes in contravention to free trade agreements, you just might be a Republican.
headless lucy spews:
If you are a sellout and have given up on your dreams, you might just be a Republican.
Foxworthy spews:
If you complain about voter fraud but dont support a voter ID at the polls, you just might be a democrat.
Foxworthy spews:
If your candidate mysteriously picks up votes that were just discovered on the third recount, you just might be a democrat.
The Socialist spews:
Experts say new voter identification laws in 12 states could influence the outcome of close races.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01897.html
Richard Pope spews:
Roger Rabbit @ 3
Here is the situation on the Voter Pamphlet Statement and the King County “Bar” Association:
Frank LaSalata had been regularly refusing to admit the alcohol breath test as evidence in drunk driving cases. He was proud of doing so, and indeed campaigned on this issue (at least to his fellow lawyers). In his KCBA Judicial Candidate Questionnaire, LaSalata listed his decisions as a substitute judge rejecting alcohol breath tests as the most important accomplishments of his entire legal career:
http://www.campaignsitebuilder.....ements.pdf
On September 28, 2006, King County Elections asked both myself and Mr. LaSalata to submit new Voters Pamphlet statements for the general election. Both of us had criticized Judge Mary Ann Ottinger in our primary statements, and it would have looked interesting for us to have appeared in the general election with the same statements. The deadline for new statements was close of business on September 29, 2006.
(I think Mr. LaSalata was the impetus for this. His statement had two out of five paragraphs criticizing Judge Ottinger by name. Mine had one of four paragraphs criticizing her, but I had carefully referred to her only as the “incumbent”, instead of by name, just in case she happened to get eliminated in the primary.)
I knew that Mr. LaSalata would personally attack me, like he had Judge Ottinger. So I basically changed one paragraph to include facts about Mr. LaSalata, instead of Judge Ottinger, which I made the second paragraph of four:
“Frank LaSalata won’t enforce our drunk driving laws. He won’t allow alcohol breath tests as evidence. His campaign contributions are mostly from drunk driving and criminal defense lawyers. LaSalata recently moved here from Friday Harbor, where his home was foreclosed on August 12, 2005.”
Six days after I submitted my Voter Pamphlet statement, and after it had already been sent to the printers, the Washington Supreme Court rendered its decision in City of Fircrest v. Jensen on October 5, 2006. The Jensen decision held that the alcohol breath test law was constitutional, and rejected the legal reasoning that Mr. LaSalata had been using to keep these tests from being admitted as evidence in drunk driving cases:
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opini.....=767386MAJ
The Voters Pamphlet was distributed beginning on October 13, 2006, eight days after the Jensen decision was rendered.
Based on the Jensen decision, Mr. LaSalata’s supporters are now saying that he will no longer routinely refuse to admit alcohol breath tests as evidence. They complained to the KCBA, saying that my Voter Pamphlet statement was misleading, because it implied that Mr. LaSalata would refuse to honor the Washington Supreme Court decision in City of Fircrest v. Jensen.
After the City of Fircrest v. Jensen decision, I changed the wording in my campaign literature and website to the past tense. So now I am using language to the following effect:
“Frank LaSalata has not enforced our drunk driving laws. He did not admit alcohol breath tests into evidence. He lists his decisions as a substitute judge to reject alcohol breath tests as the most important accomplishments of his legal career.
Frank LaSalata is highly popular with drunk driving and criminal defense lawyers. These same lawyers have also provided the majority of his campaign contributions.”
http://www.campaignsitebuilder.....rial=false
And of course, I go into considerable detail on my website about the circumstances under which Mr. LaSalata’s home in Friday Harbor was sold at foreclosure on August 12, 2005. Excellent personal financial management by someone making approximately $100,000 per year working as a “full-time substitute judge”!
The King County “Bar” Association is a voluntary association of lawyers in King County. Less than 30% of the attorneys in King County choose to belong to this organization. I am in the majority group, and like over 70% of King County lawyers, have no use for this organization.
The KCBA supported Mr. LaSalata based upon his decisions in drunk driving cases to reject the alcohol breath tests as evidence. So it is not surprising that they would condemn me for my Voters Pamphlet statement, based on the intervening Washington Supreme Court decision somehow making Mr. LaSalata look like he would be a scofflaw.
It would have been more appropriate for the KCBA to admit that my legal opinions regarding breath alcohol tests were correct, and Mr. LaSalata’s opinions were wrong — as seven of the nine members of the Washington Supreme Court decided in the City of Jensen v. Fircrest decision.
The Seattle Times doesn’t support my candidacy either. So they made it look like I had changed my website in response to the KCBA statement, rather than telling the public that the Washington Supreme Court had determined that I was right and Mr. LaSalata was wrong.
Foxworthy spews:
If killing babies are a choice but are against school choice, you just might be a democrat.
The Socialist spews:
Wal-Mart Returns to Basics
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Having tried its hand at being hip, retailer reverts to a more familiar approach: slashing prices.
I am very poor BUt I will never ever ever shop at wall mart
Untill they let there worker unionize like they allow in china wall marts
I say If it is good enuff for the communist chinnies wall mart workers it is good enough for the american ones are the rest of the world.
Thank The Socialist has approved this add
Foxworthy spews:
If you are to dumb to carry the right ID to the polls to vote but yet are running for office, you just might be a democrat. hehehe
The Socialist spews:
24#
yeah I wish they would have flushed you thats for sure
The Socialist spews:
lets get back to talking about the sick gay homersexuily minister prevert meth addict that has to buy sex from men.
The Socialist spews:
I vote bye mail dip shit I don’t have to show my id anyways dumb fuck and people all ready had to show there voter registration card at the polles shit for brains
The Socialist spews:
Communists
Those who actively support the interests of the working-class as a whole, without any kind of prejudice. Communists live to unite workers, instead of divide them along imaginery lines, whether based on gender, nationality, race, or ideology.
The Socialist spews:
“In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?
The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.
“They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mold the proletarian movement.
“The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only:
(1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.
(2) In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
Foxworthy spews:
If your party tries to keep the military from voting, you just might be a democrat.
LiberalRedneck spews:
I love doing the JCH adult-onset ADD every once in a while:
The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.
The Rev. Ted Haggard, a married father of five who has been called one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the nation, denied the allegations. His accuser refused to share voice mails that he said backed up his claim.
The Socialist spews:
we want the military to vote were counting on them
Foxworthy spews:
If you ever thought your party got shafted in Florida only to lose the same state four years later by over 300,000 votes, you just might be a democrat.
Roger Rabbit spews:
9
See 11 et al.
Foxworthy spews:
If you feel that your candidate got robbed when losing by over 120,000 votes but feel a 129 vote win on the third recount was fair, you just might be a democrat. heheheeheh
Roger Rabbit spews:
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If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat.
Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 9:23 pm
This is a joke, right? Clinton wasn’t squeaky clean, but he’s a saint compared to Bush.
The Socialist spews:
Nixon is a saint compared to bush
Roger Rabbit spews:
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It’s good to see the world pointing out the simple face that Dickie is a total fuck up in no way capable of being a judge.
Commentby RightEqualsStupid— 11/2/06@ 9:28 pm
The case of Richard Pope is very sad. He’s obviously very bright and has accomplished a lot by getting through law school, practicing law, trying at least to be a family man, and going into the public arena to run for office as many times as he has. What a tragedy he couldn’t keep it together. Being a Republican must have corroded something inside his head. His mother should have warned him to stay away from Republicans.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Kids. Just say no! Don’t do Republicans.
The Socialist spews:
http://www.marxists.org/refere.....onysmi.htm
Roger Rabbit spews:
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If you complain about voter fraud but dont support a voter ID at the polls, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 10:45 pm
More bullshit from a wingnut blowing smoke out of his ass! Tell us Foxworthy, what “problem” is voter ID supposed to solve? Imposters voting under someone else’s name? Can you show me one case, anywhere, where that has happened? Let’s be honest now, voter ID serves only one purpose and that’s to keep people from voting in Democratic precincts. Fuck you, you un-America, anti-democracy, piece of shit! I fought a war to defend freedoms you want to take away. You’re no better than a commie.
The Socialist spews:
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Irish poet and playwrite who was also a socialist.
[Biography]
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) Irish writer and playwrite, comrade of Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, and William Morris, later joined the Fabian society, a circle of intellectuals who advocated reform to avoid revolution.
[Biography]
H.G. Wells
(1866-1946) Radical science fiction author who used his novels to warn of the dangers of capitalism.
wow look at all these great guys that were Socialist to :-)
Roger Rabbit spews:
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Richard, thanks for the reply, and I have bad news for you — I think your NEW voters pamphlet statement IS misleading. Why? Because you continue to paint LaSalata in a light of his past rulings without mentioning the fact a recent WSC has changed the whole situation. Of course he’s going to follow precedent. If he doesn’t, he shouldn’t be elected, or if elected, should be removed. Do you have some reason to believe he won’t? If not, you’re campaigning against him based on his previous legal position on the issue which is no longer extant. And that ain’t square.
The Socialist spews:
43 HEY
IM A COMMUNIST SO SHUT UP RABBIT
Roger Rabbit spews:
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If killing babies are a choice but are against school choice, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:01 pm
If you cared 1/100th as much about people after they’re born as you do about people before they’re born, you’d be a Democrat.
Roger Rabbit spews:
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If you are to dumb to carry the right ID to the polls to vote but yet are running for office, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:06 pm
There’s no IQ test for voting. (Lucky for Republicans.) There’s no literacy requirement, or poll tax, either. The only requirements for voting are those specified in the state and federal constitutions, and you aren’t entitled to add any. This isn’t negotiable. If you do, we’re going to have a civil war.
The Socialist spews:
There is nuthing wrong with communisum.
NO sytem works even democrisy if you get a totalitarean dictator as a leader
I mean Sadum was elected you no .
The soviet union and chinnia and the rest are no more real communistes then Sadum Husan was a Demercratic president
Roger Rabbit spews:
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If your party tries to keep the military from voting, you just might be a democrat. Commentby Foxworthy— 11/2/06@ 11:18 pm
You’re blowing smoke out of your ass. King County counted 15,000 military/overseas votes in 2004. Only 16 weren’t counted because they arrived too late and that wasn’t KC’s fault. Any soldier who didn’t get his absentee ballot could have obtained a Federal Write In Ballot from his Voting Assistance Officer, and 1,300 Washington voters did so in 2004. King County mailed every single military/overseas ballot on time, every last one. You’re a fucking liar.
The Socialist spews:
Most country around the word are working to be more socialist not less you no
Roger Rabbit spews:
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IM A COMMUNIST SO SHUT UP RABBIT Commentby The Socialist— 11/2/06@ 11:37 pm
I don’t take orders from commies.
The Socialist spews:
I mean why is our oil idustry not nationelised. You would think sence oil is so importaint that it should be nationelized like our water and electricity is in most places.
I mean people are dieing for oil don’t you think it should be under the goverments control.
It would make gas allot cheaper for one thing. And in stead of all these billiones of dolleres going in to some fat cat capitolist pigs pocket it would be going to help the whole country pay down the det and invest in the futer
The Socialist spews:
I don’t take orders from rabbit!!!
The Socialist spews:
weres elmer fudd when you need him?
Richard Pope spews:
Roger Rabbit @ 40
She did.
The Socialist spews:
If you would actuily go read marx with an open mind you would see like I did he was right
ANd every thing he talkes about is still happening to day. you can see it all around us with out sorcing of jobs to importing of illigal imergrans to drive down the cost of laber.
The Socialist spews:
Beciades as far as the right wingers are conserned you are a liberal communist socialist anyways
there demonizing you just like they did the socialist of the last century. They have to so they can hold on to power and make as much money as they can
The Socialist spews:
Capitolizum has nuthing to do with democrisy. As you can see bye china they are capitolist now with out democrisy.
capitolisum probibly works better in a dictatorship envirerment like china.
Foxworthy spews:
This is a joke, right? Clinton wasn’t squeaky clean, but he’s a saint compared to Bush.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 11/2/06@ 11:24 pm
1. CRIME STATS
– Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
– Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
– Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
– Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
– Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
– Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
– Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
– Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
– Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
– Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
– Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
– First president sued for sexual harassment.
– First president accused of rape.
– First first lady to come under criminal investigation
– Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
– First president to establish a legal defense fund.
– First president to be held in contempt of court
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
– First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
1. OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
If you still dont believe that Clinton was the most corrupt president ever after all this, then you are a democrat.
Roger Rabbit spews:
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I don’t take orders from rabbit!!! Commentby The Socialist— 11/2/06@ 11:50 pm
That makes us even. Now go fuck yourself.
Roger Rabbit spews:
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She should have warned you to stay away from the law, too.
Roger Rabbit spews:
I wish that I had stayed away from the law! Should’ve got an engineering degree. Then I could live like Redneck — in a real trailer park instead of a hole in the ground in a public park. Too late now.
Richard Pope spews:
Roger Rabbit @ 64
Makes two of us.
Roger Rabbit spews:
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– Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
– Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
Well whaddaya know! When Democrats are in power, they prosecute their own crooks. Wish the Republicans would, instead of lying and covering up.
– The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
Those grounds aren’t in the Constitution, which is why he was acquitted.
– If you still dont believe that Clinton was the most corrupt president ever after all this, then you are a democrat.
Probably 75% of the presidents before 1900 have got him beat, and so does every president after 2000.
Roger Rabbit spews:
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What the hell are you doing up this time of night, Richard? Don’t you have to work tomorrow? Aren’t you running a political campaign?
Richard Pope spews:
Roger Rabbit @ 66
Bill Clinton is extremely intelligent. He is personally likeable. He was a good administrator. And many people think he was an excellent President.
Would Bill Clinton make a good judge?
Mark the Welsher spews:
Another classic from my boyfriend, Yo:
WELL LIBERALREDNECK FOR SUCH A SMALL OBSCURE ELECTION GOLGY WAS SURE PUSHING IT.
YOU GUY WILL NOT TAKE BACK THE SENANATE OR THE HOUSE IN 06 SO EAT SHIT AND BARK AT THE MOON.
AND IF I HAD A SHIT EATING DOG THE WOULD HAVE TO SEND YOUR SHOES HOME.LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS
Commentby YO— 3/29/06@ 4:29 pm
Daddy Love spews:
12 Foxworthy
“If a “culture of corruption” is a major concern for you today but it wasn’t from 1993-2000, you just might be a democrat. ”
Republicans weren’t talking about it either. They were too busy honing their plans to jump onto the money train and then replace the engineer and corner the market on coal. Now that it’s fucking out of control/b> under your greasy, greedy stewardship, The People whose will you disdain are fighting back the only way they can: re-insituting divided government and two-party rule gain to ensure the oversight for which your boys ABANDONED their reponsibility.
Daddy Love spews:
Oh, well.
Dazed and Confused spews:
Americans would be better off if they included as part of political candidate qualifications an affidavit stating the candidate has at least once completed the Saturday, or even Sunday, New York Times crossword puzzle in ink, unassisted.
RightEqualsStupid spews:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ss03m.html
Hey righties – read it and weep!
Lietta spews:
Thumbs Up from me Goldy – and you will know why. I don’t normally comment at your blog – you have quite a raucas crowd here, and it looks like they enjoy playing off each other and showing each other up so I say let em play. Goldy, you well know I tend to see the serious side of the political issues facing our family with our two returning Iraq veterans facing multiple deployments. Anyway, thought I’d give you some kudos for sharing the video from those great Iraq veterans at VoteVets. Oh, and yes, General Wesley Clark too.
JCH [Pennsylvania] spews:
Republicans WIN next week!!! Thank you, John “ The Troops Are Dum Fucks” Kerry!!!!!!
22 million Rush listeners and 22 million vets and their families will ALL vote Republican next week!!!
JCH [Pennsylvania] spews:
Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooslims for Democrats!!! “Guvment” union hacks for Democrats!!! Black 4th generation welfare families for Democrats!!! [ “Gotsa keep the motha f*ckin check comin!!!!!”]
RollingThunderBlog spews:
We should be afraid of terrorism because of Iraq? How does that make sense?
David Wright spews:
Focus groups run by marketing consultants conclude that the word “terrorism” makes people vote Republican, while the word “Iraq” makes people vote Democrat. So we get shallow Republican ads says saying “terrorism, terrorism, terrorism…” and shallow Democratic ads (like this one) saying “Iraq, Iraq, Iraq…”.
Maybe if we went back to only letting wealthy people vote the level of political discourse would improve.