Note to Stefan: it’s time to embrace a new scandal.
While the WA state GOP’s favorite conspiracy theorist has tirelessly devoted himself towards uncovering fraud and corruption in King County Elections (I’m sure he’ll find that smoking gun any day now,) he’s totally missing out on a raging controversy that threatens to bring county government to its knees: Mooie the acid-washed puppy.
Of course, I expect the media to pile on this story: it was a horrific, heart-wrenching crime, and… well… everybody loves puppies (except, I suppose, the person who immersed the poor, four-month-old pitbull in muriatic acid.) But I was nonetheless surprised to see my inbox fill with puppy-related news releases nearly two weeks after the incident. If there’s ever a sign that Puppygate threatens to explode into a full fledged political crisis, it’s the elected officials tripping all over themselves trying to prove who is more strongly opposed to dipping puppies in acid.
Yesterday, KC Executive Ron Sims office released a somewhat defensive sounding “Puppy investigation update,” which of course prompted Council Chair Larry Phillips to go on the offensive… lest the executive steal the anti-animal cruelty high ground. Phillips apparently had no choice but to send a letter to Sims urging a “prompt and thorough investigation of this tragic and shocking case” — a letter that somehow managed to make its way onto an animal rights website before it reached Sims desk. Imagine that.
So I asked Sims spokesman Sandeep Kaushik… “what the fuck?”… to which he replied that they’ve never seen public reaction like this before. More than with the 2004 election controversy, I asked incredulously? “Magnitudes greater,” he said.
Spurred on by websites like Dogster and Pasado, animal lovers (or as the FBI calls them, “terrorists”) have been inundating (i.e. “terrorizing”) government officials with impassioned pleas for action. The Executive’s Office, the County Council, Animal Control, the Federal Way Police… they’re receiving thousands of animated and sometimes angry emails and phone calls… some even threatening vigilante action if the authorities do not apprehend the perpetrators and bring them to justice. No other controversy has come even close to generating such an outcry… not the election contest or the Southwest Airlines deal or any number of issues that impact the daily lives of the region’s citizens.
Which makes me wonder… is the American public so jaded by man’s inhumanity to man, that nothing short of dipping a puppy in acid compels compassion these days? Are our politicians wasting their money on media consultants and handlers, when the secret to shaping public opinion is… puppies? Is the anti-war movement making a huge miscalculation by focusing attention on the human tragedy of the conflict, when the one thing that could finally provoke the American people to stand up and demand an end to the war would be grainy pictures from the Baghdad pound of hooded, shackled puppies with electrodes attached to their testicles?
Now, don’t get me wrong… I love animals (i.e. I’m a “terrorist”,) and what happened to this dog was truly horrible. It’s an appalling, saddening crime, and the pictures made me cringe. I even made my own puppy look the other way. I sure hope they catch the guy.
But it’s a dog, for chrisakes!
I dunno… just thought we might want to readjust our priorities.
“is the American public so jaded by man’s inhumanity to man, that nothing short of dipping a puppy in acid compels compassion these days?”
It’s not that, Goldy. It’s just that … well … a pitbull is MORE LOVABLE than humans. All pitbulls do is RIP YOUR FACE OFF. They don’t go around building nuclear weapons, starting wars, smearing political candidates, rigging utility rates, and shit like that.
I’ll take a wild guess that whoever did this doesn’t like pit bulls, for some reason or other. The perp probably doesn’t like pit bull owners, either.
Goldy – you are so damned articulate – but you missed the mark. In the popular mind this is a child. The old rural relationship to animals, including all the good dog things, has been long ago eclipsed by the urban dog lover — for these gentle folks, this is a child.
And if the vet bill is 3,00.00 or more, it will be spent.
Good thought for camapaign material – yes, dogs and puppies. Call Maria.
Can we get a photo of Eyman kicking his dog in an obviously angry and mean streaked mood?
Let me know.
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“Can we get a photo of Eyman kicking his dog in an obviously angry and mean streaked mood? Let me know.” Commentby BOB from BOEING— 3/22/06@ 7:04 pm
If Eyman doesn’t have a dog to kick, swing by Green Lake Park and I’ll provide one. We’ve got plenty of dogs here in the park who need kicking.
You realize this is all Bush’s fault don’t you? The doggie acid dipper was probably a recipient of federally subsidized mental health help and meds, but lost access to both meds and therapy sessions do to budget cutbacks. So, he or she off meds and out of therapy freaked out and dipped their puppy in acid. A horrid crime and all Bush’s fault. It’s also Bush’s fault that the perp hasn’t been found. Police departments around the country have been hurt by cutbacks in federal revenue sharing (and the misguided notion that pot is a bigger problem than meth.) and are too short staffed to spend much time looking for people that commit crimes against animals.
To recap: President Bush doesn’t care about puppies, even puppies that have been dipped in acid.
Goldy, you’re slipping, I posted on this yesterday
http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/005905.html
I thought it rather lame when the most serious of my j-school professors (he looked like Moses and talked with the booming voice of God) insisted that it was critically important to play up pictures of pet dogs and cats. Apparently he had a much better handle on what sells newspapers than I did.
Goldy sez:
“So I asked Sims spokesman Sandeep Kaushik… “what the fuck?”… to which he replied that they’ve never seen public reaction like this before. More than with the 2004 election controversy, I asked incredulously? “Magnitudes greater,” he said.”
Stefan was all over this one yesterday Goldy you dork.
And guess who the Animal Control Supervisor reports to knucklehead??
Your Pal DEAN LOGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT!!
And I’d LOVE to see Sandeep’s statistics which lead him to conclude this was bigger than their Election Incompetence!!!
Dean Logan–
“I can’t account for all the ballots.
I can’t keep my Voter Registration Database updated.
I can’t stop votes from being put directly into Accu-vote.
Hell, I can’t even handle a damn dog investigation properly”.
Any more incompetence of King Kounty you want to expose today Goldy??
I can see the press release slug now, “Cantwell Supports Legislation To Get Tough On Rural Human-on-Dog Crimes; Saves America and Washington In Process”
Your failure to grasp what’s going on with this is analogous to why Dems continue to lose elections. This has nothing to do with rational perspective. No one is deliberately elevating their outrage over this above their outrage about other, more distant wrongs. This outrage simply fits a more personal scale than, say, the war in Iraq does for a lot of people. And up close, outrage is easier to feel and it’s easier to respond to.
Repubs know that emotions win elections. Reason doesn’t. Dems candidates keep trying to win elections on policy-based strategies. Repubs appeal to pure emotion and then make up a good-sounding narrative about the policy.
leave it to that sick punk liar and traitor steffy to find a way to make this into something political…some people are only alive because it’s against the law to kill them…fuck you steffy, fuck you and all your kin you piece of shit…
KSD–
Yet another humorless Pinhead!!
The Animal Control Supervisor reports to DEAN LOGAN.
Where does the buck stop???
You leftist liberals are so inhumane! You did this on purpose to take the heat off DeanRon!
But we’re on to your tricks! You won’t get away with this! We’re going to keep on analyzing, crunching numbers, interpreting the law until Deanron is replaced by the courageous Stefan Sharansky!
Then we’ll have PERFECT elections!
You know if the puppy was a registered democrat we would have Ron and Dean personally looking for who did this.
Mike McGavick is already looking for ways we can drill Mooie for oil.
Nwgal: The problem is the libruls try to solve every problem with a program. There isn’t a problem the libruls won’t create a program for to throw money at. That’s why Seattle is a sink hole for taxes. The money goes it but the infrastructure doesn’t appear. How are the Westlake monorail repairs going?
Actually Mooie could still vote. Since when has death or being a dog ever stop a democrat from voting.
Cyniclown @ 8:
Moron. I guess sarcasm passes easily over your head (maybe through it). Try jumping.
It is outrageous to treat an animal like that. It is just as outrageous that issues that shape our lives dont draw any outward concern. Just shameful!
Goldy could not have been more right with his words.
Some jackASS said: leave it to that sick punk liar and traitor steffy to find a way to make this into something political…some people are only alive because it’s against the law to kill them…fuck you steffy, fuck you and all your kin you piece of shit…
Commentby KlakeSucksDick— 3/22/06@ 7:41 pm
Yes the ASSHeads’ Mental Midget has arrived!! Wooohooo! I’ll take the bait. We already knew there were walking dead people on this planet! You proved it with this post! Who are you really? Cougar, TFF? Rabbit Pellet progeny? And you libruls moonbats want to be back in control with a sick fuck such as this on the loose?
You KLOWNS wept when Franz, the 1st Dog, got squashed due to owner negligence! Franz was dumb and his owner was dumber.
In this case, much different.
The Animal Control people WHO REPORT TO DEAN LOGAN botched the investigation just like LOGAN botched the election.
For once, some Konsistency in King Kounty!
Konsistently inKompetent!
DISCLAIMER: Mr. Cynical is a paid propagandist for corporate interests and right-wing political forces. His wet dream is to turn Washington state into Alabama by the Strait. Like his comrade in arms Karl Rove, he will say whatever it takes to realize his dystopic vision.
Did the dog have a dog tag on him and who is the registered owner? Knowing how KC keeps records the dog is probably registered to five different street drunks in Seattle.
Left Foot you may have an issue there. Hmmm… Let’s see.
I say we should have the MSM be the propaganda arm of Zarqawi. Let’s cover every IED that explodes. Have the MSM keep fear in the hearts of the Iraqis. Don’t cover the good the soldiers are doing because the Iraqi populace would see progress in their country and that makes GWB look good. And naturally we can’t have that.
Let’s only have the nightly news display the crime in the inner cities. We can’t have them display the students striving to make themselves better. No way.
Let’s only show the schools that have problems. Display the drug infested crips and blood wearing gang schools. We can’t show the Joe Clarks’ or the Jaime Escalantes’ of the world who put discipline and uplift the students. No that would be the wrong message.
Let’s only show the Terrell Owens and the Albert Belles of sports. We can’t show the Tim Duncans or the Dwayne Wades who have great charities. Sure sport a Shaq every now and then because he’s an articulate black and he makes everyone laugh. But show a Rasheed Wallace in his helping mode? No way!
SillyPuddyForBrains, not a chance puddybud, the only walking dead that I know of is your ‘illustrious (sic) brain’ trying to find a way to be normal.
Cynical I thought it was KING KLOWN KOUNTY?
The puddytat has arrived. Sorry but sick_fuck@19 is one of yours! This is truly a eat shit and bark at the moon loony!
Man, you dipshits are never off message.
sigh.
Wow, Apparently Ms. Chickenhawk wants all our taxes raised so we can have enough animal control people to preventively patrol and prevent dunking puppies in acid.
Normal tax and spend chickenhawk wingnut.
And, once again, Mr. Sharansky proves that he spends his time reading this blog, while Goldy apparently has better things to do then read his meaningless postings. How are those retractions going Mr. Sharansky? Yet to withdraw your slander of the Supreme Court for ignoring the Constitution (not true, Mr. Sharansky just can not read, the court decision had nothing to do with the topic he claimed), or your slander of Seattle Scores, Friends of the Children and Making Connections for violating their 501(c)3 status? (Accused them of campaigning when they were simply participants in Senator Cantwell’s education event at Garfield, not in any campaign activity). Just to name two.
You should read your own board Mr. Sharansky, you might learn something, although definitely not from your posts.
Thhwwwwwwap!
Cougar the librul puddytat: Any time you want to step up and play the dozens let me know!
Now all the libruls are googling “play the dozens”. If you be from de ghetto, you’d know the term! White boyz need not apply!
Librul white boyz: Choose the correct definition for playing de dozens. It’s been bastardized
Goldy you be from Philly(sic); tell ’em what it means!
Here is a little more background on the key East Chicago Election Fraud KLOWN:
“A federal magistrate will arraign an East Chicago city councilman and his brother on fraud, conspiracy and theft charges.
Terrance Artis is scheduled to appear Friday and Randall “Blue” Artis, D-3rd, Tuesday in U.S. District Court. They are expected to plead not guilty before Magistrate Paul Cherry on charges they took part in a scheme to defraud East Chicago of honest government and enrich themselves.
The six-count indictment comes eight months after similar federal charges were brought against East Chicago City Councilmen Frank Kollintzas, Joe De La Cruz and Adrian Santos, and East Chicago City Hall executives Edwardo Maldonado, Jose Valdez Jr. and Pedro Porras.
Those six already have pleaded not guilty.
Randall Artis, 47, has represented East Chicago’s heavily minority 3rd District since 1992.
Note–
This KLOWN is a DEMOCRAT.
The Election Fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.
This must be racism huh??
Now Cynical: Here it is from the home town. Does Goldy dare put this on ASSes?
“As you can see, living in Philadelphia is not as simple as you might think. But, the general rule of thumb is if something says “Philly Style,” then it is probably something a little bit different than what you think it is.
Unfortunately, this rule does not apply just to Philadelphia cuisine, but its general elections as well.
What you might call “a decades old vote and corruption manufacturing machine bent on nothing other than enriching a privileged few and Democratic Party at the expense of the average person through an unchecked system of graft, fraud, and intimidation,” Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell, calls a fair election, “Philly Style.”
Some of the ingredients in a Philly Style Election are: Cheese: to hand out to people after they vote for the Democrats. Bread: to vent vehicles for thugs to chase Republican volunteers through the streets. And, Bologna: that it is what you call polling sites in local bars, private homes plastered with pro-Democratic candidate campaign literature, and the district offices of local Democrats running for reelection. Mix all these together and you end up with a big case of heartburn and “The American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund” naming Philadelphia as the number one election fraud hotspot in the United States.
The dead voting? Sure it sounds funny, but in Philadelphia this has been happening for decades. As has residents and non-residents alike creating fictitious addresses which include vacant lots and fire hydrants so they can vote multiple times. But you know how it is in Philly; the political machine loves democracy so much they cannot vote just once.”
http://www.webcommentary.com/a.....ate=060322
Explaining that someone charged with voter fraud is a democrat is like saying a burglar is a thief. No brainer.
Or this one Cynical:
http://www.belleville.com/mld/.....148844.htm
Democrats’ packets say don’t buy votes
Party money bought backing in the past
BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK News – Democrat
BELLEVILLE – St. Clair County Democratic leadership has distributed election packets to countywide precinct committeemen, which include an affidavit stating that money from the party will not be used to buy votes.
The unusual action follows the vote buying convictions in June of five East St. Louis politicians. They had helped distribute more than $70,000 received by city Democratic precinct committeemen two days before the 2004 election from the county Democratic organization.
While St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Robert Sprague could not be reached for comment, a fax received Monday from his Belleville law office included these documents given to precinct committeemen countywide for today’s primary election:
WHere was the hue and cry of libruls over California and diebold systems. Are you saying a blue state has fraud in dem machines?
http://www.sacbee.com/content/.....5169c.html
The Diebold system “has been shown time and time again to have serious, fundamental vulnerabilities to fraud and vote manipulation,” said John Eichhorst, a lawyer representing the 24 Californians who filed the lawsuit against McPherson. Also named in the suit are the elections officials of 18 counties where the machines are to be utilized this year, including Placer, Plumas, San Joaquin, Tulare, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Senator Debra Bowen, a Marina del Rey Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee, said in a statement that the “lawsuit puts the spotlight on the question of whether (McPherson) has the power to ignore the law when it comes to certifying voting equipment for use in California.”
Bowen, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for secretary of state, has contended that McPherson’s certification of the Diebold systems violated state law.
Jennifer Kerns, McPherson’s spokeswoman, said the allegations are baseless. She noted that the systems survived rigorous internal and independent testing, including a thorough review by a University of California, Berkeley, professor who has been critical of electronic voting.
Hey Rufus, notice a donk is saying the Diebold claims are baseless. Let’s see if the FUWA librul donk swallow that message or continue to drink the kool-aid!
Hey Rufus how about $5 for a vote? Damn them donk are clever!
http://www.belleville.com/mld/.....148963.htm
A vote against the status quo
Few registered voters are expected at the polls today, and the most common excuse is that there is not much on the primary ballot (or maybe that primary votes aren’t worth $5 apiece). But just because there are few contested races, it doesn’t mean this election is unimportant.
Goldy: Come on! You have to have know this one too!
http://www.newsgleaner.com/sit.....#038;rfi=6
The acerbic electrician who landed a seat in City Council was convicted Friday on 18 counts of corruption in public office.
The jury deliberated for six hours before finding him guilty of money laundering, bribery, fraud and conspiracy when he accepted about $30,000 from businesses in his district in exchange for favorable treatment on taxes and zoning.
Yes donk love dat money!
Puddy-
Diebold is the only thing the donks have. Hell if my party lost elections like the donks I would make shit up too. We just got to keep on reminding the dems that they are looooooooooooosers.
Just got to love donko vote fraud!
Former E. St. Louis Democratic official sentenced for vote fraud
By Michael Shaw
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
02/28/2006
Charles Powell Jr., formerly the head of the East St. Louis Democratic Party, was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in East St. Louis to 21 months in prison for his part in a conspiracy to violate voting laws.
Powell and four others were convicted in June of using Democratic party money to pay people who voted in the presidential election of 2004. The aim, prosecutors said, was to coerce city residents who normally wouldn’t go to the polls to vote for key Democrats, primarily Mark Kern, who was elected as county board chairman in that election.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltod.....enDocument
Question for For the Clueless: Were any of those references Free Republic? Media Research Center? No!
They were MSM.
I expect your call for my banning will start soon!
All I ever got was a pet chicken. I loved that chicken. We used to go fishing together and scratching around the yard….
Ahhhhhhhhh! Nostalgia!
Goldy,
What ON EARTH is the purpose of this post?
What in the world are you even slightly confused about?
A horrifying human interest story gets massive public reacion and ANYBODY who screwed up in this case is going to be crucified. That’s life when you’re a public official.
I just wonder what you think your post is going to accomplish. Love of animals is a symbol of our humanity. That’s why people get so worked up about them. Pets only exist in our lives to be objects of affection. Their only other logical purpose is to be food, humanely dispatched. Therefore, cruelty to them is sadism in its pure form. It is the very symbol of sadism.
When we see cruelty to a member of our own species it implies that there may be conflict between humans and we start to pick sides. The person who is the victim of cruelty becomes a secondary consideration. When cruelty to humans is actually pure sadism we jump all over it, but the victim must first be proved to be “innocent”. Animals are always innocent. Therefore they are always maximally sympathetic.
Saying “it’s just a dog” is completely stupid. You can’t possibly make a political point by saying it.
Dlaw, go back to Washblog.
It’s a fucking joke, you nitwit!
This episode shows perfecly just how completely hard up the right wing nutjobs are to change the story. We have a pretend president who raises the debt ceiling to its highest ever level, gas prices through the roof, the quagmire of Iraq and no doubt Iran’s next, we have republicans getting indicted or going to jail every week for fraud, we have the Vice President shooting people and turning traitor on our own CIA, we can’t find bin Laden, Bush completely fucked off a great American city after Katrina, the whole world is mad at us, Bush and his ilk tried to sell off our ports to Bush’s arab friends, Bush’s aids are getting arrested for stealing at Target and the best the right can do is to try to link Logan to a scalded puppy? I think that pretty much sums up how pitiful these fools have become.
This story is going to make me look a lot differently at my acid-washed jeans in the closet…
Belltowner @ 45
WHAT, is a joke?
What the hell are you talking about?
Belltowner @ 47
What is that, funny?
46
Change the story? You mean like you did. I don’t blame you; you donks are indefensible when it comes to voter fraud.
@ 49
Probably not to you. Go back to Washblog, I hear there’s a nice anti-Cantwell diary for you to enjoy!
Seriously, Belltowner, are you retarded?
Really, I mean it can’t possibly be that case that you think Goldy’s post is a joke, can it? Are you a complete mental case? You’ve said some stupid things and people have mocked you, but this is really a stretch even for you.
“Acid-washed jeans?” Really, you think there’s some humor in a puppy having muriaic acid on it?
I don’t think puppy acid is a joke.
What’s your problem with Goldy? You think that animals are more important than humans? Awful shit happens to kids every day. It’s ridiculous that people aren’t worried about their fellow man the way they’re worried about a dog.
acid-washed puppy = bad
acid-washed jeans = good
Dlaw
Often, homeless people are murdered, sometimes in awful ways. But that’s ok, because they had it coming, right? Every once in awhile, I hear a story of a bunch of kids kicking the shit out of a homeless person. They deserve to be valued as human beings. I think the post is about perspective.
We routinely shit on the less fortunate. But fuck with a pet and holy shit, you’ve really done it now!
JDB, the voter fraud meme smells like another Rovian attempt to distract attention from some truly monumental Republican scandals. Isn’t it interesting how these supposedly nonprofessional trolls speak the talking points of the day with such discipline?
One of the great advantages of the right is that they are used to being told what to do. In contrast, organizing the left is like herding cats. Not that I’m suggesting the left should adopt the military model of organizing . . . .
Belltowner,
You are definitely retarded.
Here’s an idea: since people spend millions upon millions of dollars on dogs that could be spent saving human lives, why don’t you encourage them to all humanely kill their dogs and send the money to Darfur?
I mean if they won’t do that, then surely they’ll see that it’s more important to be respectful of local Democrats and public officials than to worry about a puppy that was dipped in acid.
You have brain damage if you think that the story of a puppy dipped in acid is going to go away. You just have brain damage. And all Goldy has done is give ammunition to the Right: “Liberals care more about protecting Sims and Logan than puppies dipped in acid.” Obviously that’s what they are going to try and say. Any politician who has half a brain would use this story.
How can you possibly think you can tell the voters or the press “Hey, you shouldn’t pay attention to a story about a puppy being dipped in acid! There are important legislative priorities to think about!”? You are just an idiot.
Of course it’s more important that people get killed but the one has nothing to do with the other. Telling people NOT to have sympathy for an abused puppy helps nobody. Obviously, obviously the only reason you and GOldy are saying that is that it’s hurting local Dems. That’s obvious to anyone who reads what you’re writing. But you can’t possibly fight the story by telling people not to care about a puppy that was tortured to death. You just have to talk to people outside the Democratic party. DemThink is starting to cloud your mind.
Ron Sims thinks it’s an important story. That’s why he’s a successful politician and nobody listens to you – because he has sense.
I just cannot stand this stupidity!
“People Care Too Much About Dogs!!!”
Well of course they do, you fucking retards. Why the fuck do you think people HAVE dogs?
People spent about 35 Billion dollars in this country on pet products last year. 35 billion. Meanwhile we killed and ate many times the number of animals we spent 35 billion keeping up. In fact we had to kill more animals just to feed the animals we have.
So why don’t you introduce an anti-pet provision in the Democratic Party platform so Dean Logan doesn’t have to be embarrassed by a human interest story. That’ll be popular.
What the fuck do you use for brains?
Just a note for comparison:
By official exchange rate, Americans spent 10 billion MORE on pet products in 2005 than the entire GDP of Sudan. 40 million people lived on less than we spent on pet products and Sudan’s GDP is significantly inflated by oil revenue relative to median income.
By official exchange rate Ethiopia’s 2005 GDP was 25 billion LESS than we spent on pet products. 73 million people live there, which has to be fun.
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“You realize this is all Bush’s fault don’t you? … A horrid crime and all Bush’s fault. It’s also Bush’s fault that the perp hasn’t been found. … To recap: President Bush doesn’t care about puppies, even puppies that have been dipped in acid.” Commentby me— 3/22/06@ 7:13 pm
To the rest of us, this was so obvious it didn’t need to be stated.
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Hey! That’s MY line!! This is copyrighted material, you jerk! “HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR” etc. is Copyright (c) 2006 by Roger Rabbit Enterprises, LLC! I’m calling my lawyer!!!
There was the same reaction to the killing of a mule or donkey by three teenagers (including a Sherrif’s son) on the Eastside about ten years ago. People were calling for the death penalty.
What was done to that dog is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone or anything, including the trolls and zealots on display here . . . but it seems like many folks are venting their outrage over this because they’re afraid of venting it at the forces that threaten this country. It’s safer than protesting prima facie treason, or an executive who places himself above the Constitution (as though he’d sworn on it to uphold the Bible and not vice versa) — you might lose your job or get audited!
BUSH ADMITS INCOMPETENCE, FAILURE
Well, not overtly. Bush is too small a man to really own up to a single mistake, let alone global inadequacy. But Bush tacitly acknowledged his incompetence and failure as a war president when he said yesterday that it would be up to the next president to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Bush not only has no plan, he doesn’t even know how to define “victory.” The guy not only doesn’t know what the mission is, he’s not even sure there is one.
When Bush leaves office in January 2009, U.S. troops will have been engaged in combat in Iraq for 5 years and 10 months. It took the Allies only 5 years and 9 months to defeat Hitler. The way things are going, in January 2009 the allied coalition led by the idiot-in-chief from Crawford, Texas will still be trying to break out of the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad.
IRAQ VET WINS ILLIONIS PRIMARY
Tammy Duckworth, a former Army Reserve helicopter pilot who lost both legs in Iraq, won the Democratic nomination for the House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Henry Hyde.
Duckworth is the best known of 10 Iraq war veterans running for Congress this year — 9 of them as anti-war Democrats, dubbed by the media as “the Fighting Democrats.”
So for all of you adding at home…
That means Americans spent more on their pets in 2005 than the combined GDP of Sudan AND Etiopia.
And yet I think an anti-pet stance is not one that an American politician will soon embrace.
A far better political tactic would be to remind people that George Bush’s military used White Phosphorous munitions on CIVILIAN STRUCTURES and burned women and children alive even more horribly than that maniac burned the puppy.
And he’s proud of it.
We should show people that puppy and remind them that this administration thinks nothing of that kind of cruelty – for human beings. Abu Ghraib was a fraternity prank compared to the suffering caused by a typical bombing run, or a White Phosphorous artillery barrage. Guantamo Bay is a resort hotel compared to the torture chambers of the Central Asian dictators WE support in Bush’s effort to “expand democracy”. Saddam Hussein’s “WMD” were pop guns compared to the arms Bush’s “friend” and “ally”, the dictator of Pakistan, possesses and has proliferated.
The Bush administration proudly supports the kind of people who would dip CHILDREN in Muriatic Acid.
SEATTLE TIMES COLUMNIST BLASTS VIGILANTE GROUP FOR RACISM
In today’s Seattle Times, writer Danny Westneat criticizes the “Minutemen Civil Defense Corps,” a right-wing militia-style vigilante group, of racism for threatening to post photos on the internet of any employers who hire workers who look Hispanic.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....nny23.html
Organizer Spencer Cohen, a self-described “part-time political consultant,” denied any racist intent and says the group deems itself a “neighborhood watch group.” http://www.bellinghamherald.co...../1001/NEWS
HOW ABOUT HAVING ENOUGH LIFEBOATS ON WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES?
This is absolutely disgraceful. Washington State ferries have only enough life boats and life rafts to rescue half of the maximum capacity boat load of people. The other half of the passengers would have to wait and hope for the best. The cold waters of Puget Sound will kill someone in 30 minutes who is swimming in a life jacket, even during the summer time.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....sh23m.html
Remember the Titanic? Well these kinds of things can happen just as quickly on ferries in local waters, as on ships in the middle of the ocean. The Queen of the North ferry of the B.C. Ferries hit a rock yesterday and sank in less than an hour — in the same manner as the Titanic did in the movie. Fortunately, there were only 100 people on board — less than 15% of capacity — and there seemed to have been enough life boats for everyone.
WHY DOES CHRISTINE GREGOIRE WANT PEOPLE TO DIE?
ACTUALLY, WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES DON’T EVEN HAVE LIFE BOATS OR LIFE RAFTS
“There are no lifeboats on the state’s ferries.
If an evacuation is necessary, ferry crews will direct passengers to chutes that will funnel them to large floating platforms capable of holding up to 150 passengers each.
Passengers then will be plucked from those platforms by the crew of another ferry dispatched to the scene, hopefully in less than 40 minutes, Mitchell said.
All the state’s ferries have at least one of the escape platforms. The largest vessels in the fleet – which can carry up to 2,500 passengers but usually transport only a fraction of that – carry up to four of the platforms, Mitchell said.”
http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....0191c.html
THIS IS OUTRIGHT CRIMINAL! CHRISTINE GREGOIRE WANTS PEOPLE TO DIE!
Our largest ferries can carry up to 2,500 passengers. No life boats. No life rafts. All they have are 4 floating platforms that can carry up to 150 people each. So if a large boat goes down fully loaded, a maximum of 600 people can be accommodated out of the water. The remaining 1,900 people will have to swim in the cold waters of Puget Sound.
Do these large ferries even carry 2,500 life jackets? Even if they did, the cold waters of Puget Sound will kill someone from hypothermia in just 30 minutes, even during the summer time.
As for a “floating platform”, how safe are they when the Sound is choppy and there is significant wind and waves? Somehow, I don’t get a lot of confidence that people will be able to stay on the platforms, instead of being tossed into the cold waters.
Gregoire’s folks hope that another ferry could be on the scene within 40 minutes to pull survivors out of the water. In 40 minutes, a lot of the people won’t be survivors. And what if it takes twice as long for someone to get there? Like 80 minutes, instead of 40 minutes.
The Democrats in Olympia should take the initiative in proving to the public that our state ferries are really safe. Governor Gregoire, her cabinet, the Democrats elected statewide and those serving in Congress from this state, and the Democrat members of the legislature should don life jackets and pretend to be like those 1,900 or so folks that wouldn’t be able to make it on to the “floating platforms”.
They can them jump into the cold waters of the Puget Sound and swim for the 40 minutes that the ferry system believes would be an optimistic time for people to get rescued. We can then see how many of them are pulled out of the waters alive.
For a more realistic simulation, the higher ranking members of this crowd can stay in the water for the worst case scenario rescue time, which might be 90 minutes or more. And if the large ferries don’t carry 2,500 life jackets, they can do this swim without a life jacket to represent the extremely unfortunate folks who will be swimming in the water without any floatation devices whatsoever.
Somehow I think we would have a lot of vacant seats to fill in Olympia. I also think that the Democrats in Olympia don’t have the courage to participate in such a realistic Washington state ferries rescue scenario.
The Democrats should care about ferry system safety. The communities that are most heavily dependent on the ferry system — San Juan County, Jefferson County, Bainbridge Island and Seattle — happen to be the most liberal and Democrat leaning portions of the state.
Let’s take a fully loaded ferry at 2,500 people. Let’s say 1,900 people have to swim in the water. Of these, let’s say only half of them, or 950 people, die from hypothermia. If these people vote Democrat over Republican by a 14% margin, this would be a loss of 133 net Democrat votes.
Such an accident would have made Dino Rossi, and not Christine Gregoire, Governor of this state had it happened in October 2004. Gregoire and the Democrats really ought to care more about ferry safety.
The Washington State Ferries website has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING concerning life jackets, life rafts, or life boats. Nor is there any obvious link to any safety information in the event that one of their boats sink.
The WSF website does have a search engine. You can search, for example, for information concerning “life jackets”:
http://search.wsdot.wa.gov/sea.....esheet=www
The response will be:
Your search – life jackets – did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing “life jackets”.
U.S., Iraqi Forces Rescue 3 Hostages
Three surviving members of a Chicago-based peace activist group — Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, and Briton Norman Kember — who were kidnapped in November have been rescued alive. Their American colleague, Tom Fox, was killed by their captors earlier this month.
Dean Logan sez:
“I am a complete fuck-up. I cannot account for all the ballots. I can’t even count all the ballots that are there. And I count ballots I shouldn’t. My voter registration database is a complete disaster. I have aggressively tried to defend my incompetence. But now, my Department has completely botched a dog investigation. Hell, the truth be known, I can’t even wipe my own ass without smearing shit all over myself. I’m an incompetent putz. Please feel sorry for me.”
Love Always,
Dean “The Fuck-up” Logan
Dlaw@58: Yes, we whom think right agree. Belltowner is retarded. He wrote about Republican racism. When confronted with factual Democraptic moonbat racism he had NOOOOO answer. So it’s about time a librul calls out a librul on retarded posts!
Thanks DLaw.
I love how JustDumbBozo navigates his browser to speculative 2004 URL entries when RUFUS, Cynical and I deliver 2006 convictions! Show me the convictions JustDumbBozo! You have all day!
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All kidding aside Moobats and Conservatives, if you are truly interested in this and other animal abuse cases, navigate to http://www.pet-abuse.com/database/. It’s sad. This occurs in moonbat blue and conservative red states. There are no political boundaries to animal stupidity!
But then again I am shocked The HeadASS himself didn’t link this in. I guess it didn’t lead to Daily Kos, the moonbat bible URL!
Democrat voter fraud……..EVERY urban city with thousands of blacks and black Democrats in charge is up to it’s ears in voter fraud. Think Chicago, Gary, Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Harare, Zimbabe. All Democrat Hillary Village shit holes. All owned by blacks and liberal Democrat unions. And all havens of voter fraud. Any questions?? Well, all questions about this subject woulf be racist, so there are no questions!!! [hehe]
Do dogs vote Democrat?? Why yes, and by the thousands!!! Especially in Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee!!! Sometime every dead dogs vote Democrat!! Mostly black labs and any dog from Africa!!!
Pope the Putz asked,
“WHY DOES CHRISTINE GREGOIRE WANT PEOPLE TO DIE?”
Well she doesn’t want all people to die Pope, just you and your ilk. The world would be better if we had fewer cowards, assholes and punks like you.
Richard: Are you saying the WSFS donks only care about show me the money but you take care of your own hide on the WSFS? Nooo it can’t be true. I’ll pack my own life jacket from now on!
LauraBushKilledAGuy – I’m new here. Who did Laura Bush kill?
More illegals..more third world Democrat votes. Solution: export the 11 million back to Mexico, and give FOX the bill. 30 fdays to pay, or we take the cost of 30 years of the illegals education, medical, and social services in oil. Remember the Alamo!! Piss on third world POS Mexico.
Of course Christine Gregoire doens’t want people to die! You can’t get tax reveneus out of dead people!
Richard Pope, what are you thinking!!
In 1980 we had 3 people per 1,000 in prison. We now have 7.6 people per 1,000 in prison in the U.S.
This exceeds the high of 6 per 1,00 that was in the old Soviet Union. This is the kind of progress you make under Republican Administrations!
Chaplan Tappmann – Nice statistics. So, do those statistics mean there were more criminals running around loss in 1980 and law enforcement was less efficient? Could it be that we’re getting better at capturing criminal, prosectuing them, and putting them in jail?
Buddy, you kind of left yourself open to attack on this one. Maybe you should have thought this one out a bit more before you made the post. Maybe something like, “We have more people in prison today because of the Republicans’ Nazi-like treatment of non-violent crimes, such as smokin marijuanna.”
The statistics you quote actually make the Republicans look like they’re doing a good job of fighting crime. Something tells me you didn’t mean to do this.
Richard Pope:
Since I’m pretty sure that the Washington State Ferries must meet Coast Guard regulations and inspection. The question you should be asking is:
Why Does George Bush Want People to Die?
Well if a ferry started sinking and there weren’t enough life preservers to go around, to hell with the women and kids, all the Republicans on board would be practicing their snatch and grab routine.
Wrongboy @ 75:
I note as usual you have absolutely no facts to back up your wignut rant.
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First go the puppies, then the rabbits!
Just Dumb Bozo: Just the facts, just the facts. You have no facts and you project your limp bizkit act on me. Where are the URLs Dumb Bozo. Prove it with URLs. Where are they Dumb Bozo? I gave you URL facts above. Democratic Voter Fraud. Are you stupid or do you play this act on ASSes? I dare you to find some facts where Republicans are being incarcerated for voter fraud. I gave you evidence. You are stuck on stupid!
ASSes, I present to you another eat shit and bark at the moon moonbat librul, JDB. No facts, just blather and innuendo.
BTW For the Clueless, you can’t call Cynical Bozo. I called JDB a Bozo way before you thought of it. Clueless, try another name or are you just a copy cat, without any original thought?
JustDumbBozo:
I present more info for you. You will have to look deep for this because it has been removed. I will give you a hint. Register!
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld.....506.htm?1c – Shelley also faces two state investigations and a federal probe into accusations he accepted campaign contributions from a political ally that had been laundered through a state grant. He’s also been accused of accepting political donations in his state office.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti.....HELLEY.TMP – Read and weep DustDumbBozo. Then click on the links and you’ll read all about more donkocratic California voter fraud!
Now JustDumbBozo:
But for all ASSes, here is JustDumbBozo in action.
http://xrlq.com/archives/2005/.....ast-stand/
For the Clueless: I will release the Bozo name for use.
So JustDumbBaghdad Bob this is your picture from now on!
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Wow…twice this week I agree with Goldy.
While I do not condone animal abuse, the efforts and energies of many people are, IMO, misdirected.
Once the human condition is improved, then we can focus on animals.
Factoid: Many, (if not most) animals in America eat better and get better health care than the average human in a third world country. Dogs even get their own houses. Meanwhile people are living in cardboard refriderator boxes and sleeping on steam grates.
Wow Wrongboy, still nothing that disagrees with a single link I posted on all the Republican Fraud.
Here is the difference between you and me. I hate fraud of all kinds, you only hate fraud that supports your point of view. Hyporcrit much?
Oh, there is one other difference:
You are always WRONG!
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Wait a minute JustDumbBaghdad Bob http://xrlq.com/archives/2005/.....ast-stand/
Where are the convictions of Republicans? You have yet/b> to prove it. I was the first to decry pork. Where was your voice? I also decried voter fraud early in the Rossi compaign. I posted the Seattle Times article where 40+ felons voted. Yet your side discounted the Seattle Times because they proved 25 felons voted donk! Now you step to the plate. I proved there are convictions on the donkocrat side. I asked prove your mouth with URL based convictions. I haven’t seen a conviction yet. I provided them! You are the liar and a hypocrite!
Wrongboy:
You make it too easy. Do you even follow the links I give you? You could have easily found this:
Chuck McGee Gets Prison For Phone Jamming
Former Executive Director of the State Republican Party will serve a seven months sentence for jamming Democratic phone banks on election day 2002.
http://www.nhpr.org/node/8393
Or something like this:
Oregon’s attorney general opened a criminal investigation Wednesday into allegations that Democratic voter registration forms were destroyed or discarded by a political consulting firm working for the Republican National Committee.
The allegations involve a voter registration drive conducted by Sproul & Associates, a Phoenix-based consulting organization that was hired by the RNC earlier this year and is headed up by the former executive director of the Arizona Republican Committee, Nathan Sproul.
(You can pay for the LA Time story quoted above, or read excerpts for free here: http://www.dailykos.com/tag/Nathan%20Sproul )
Or something like this:
— After a four-day trial, a jury in Concord, New Hampshire today convicted James Tobin, the former New England Regional Director of the Republican National Committee, of charges stemming from a scheme to disrupt phone service to five Democratic Party offices and a firefighters’ ride-to-the-polls program on Election Day 2002, the Department of Justice announced today.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/20.....m_672.html
Sheesh, Wrongboy, what does it feel like to always be Wrong?
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Puddy @ 74
Any black person who is a Republican is either retarded or wants to use racism or tokenism to forward his own career.
George Bush made his political reputation KILLING black men in Texas. Every death warrant he signed guaranteed votes.
Rudy Giuliani used racism to forward his career.
We don’t even have to discuss Strom Thurmond, who came back from WW2 and immediately started fighting to deny his comrades in arms their rights. And then there is former Senate Majority leader Trent Lott. You’ve got Republican must-go destinations like Bob Jones University and, of course, the not-so-distant memory of David Duke.
Of course Democrats are so afraid of the Republicans that it might seem more likely you could turn Republicans around before you can get the Democrats to find their spines, but it’s pretty disgusting company you have to keep in the mean time.
And please, please, please don’t talk to me about Al Sharpton.
If I grew up where Al Sharpton grew up, I would hate white people more than he does.
Hell, I’m kind of sick of white people just living in Seattle – and I’m white.
Where the fuck are the brown people in this state? We need some brown people. It’s like the fucking Stepford Wives out here. It’s spooky.
Have you ever actually ridden a ferry, Richard? They’re littered with life jackets, and they all carry several racks (1-2 each) of life rafts. They’re in these barrel contraptions. Furthermore, they’re virtually never at people capacity, though they often cary full loads of cars.