I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reichert outraise Burner in the next cycle, since Karl Rove is coming into town next week to fundraise for the Republican Party and Reichert specifically. It’s a $1k/head event so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it bring in a good amount for Reichert.

Pretty impressive showing for Burner.

This is fantastic news. Now Reichert’s hoping to score some easy cash from his borrowed brain Karl Rove next Friday. David is not up to this challenge or he would be better able to raise funds on his own. Have you noticed how much of his money is coming from events attended by a few of his powerful puppet masters? Darcy on the other hand is slowly but surely gaining ground on Sherrif Haircut.

If Darcy’s team can win this weekend’s DCCC vollunteer turnout contest she’ll win a party-backed fundraising boost of $70-100K. Anyone interested in helping her should go to darcy’s website and sign up to vollunteer or get details to contact the campaign.

I know that at 130+ posts, this is about to be a dead thread, but I was browsing through some articles online about CCR, and just couldn’t help chuckling at the lyrics to “Fortunate Son”, and their uncanny resemblance to George W. Bush. I’m sure others have noticed the resemblance also.

As you will recall, Senator (and later President) George H.W. Bush pulled some strings to get his son, George W. Bush, out of the draft and instead into the Texas Air National Guard, where he was to bravely defend the shores of Texas from the pending invasion by godless communist Vietnamese hordes.

So in honor of the anonymous soldier who went to Vietnam in place of George W. Bush, I offer the following lyrics, authored by John Fogerty and performed by CCR:

“Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they’re red, white and blue.
And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don’t they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, “How much should we give?”
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, one.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son, no no no.

http://www.kriechhammer.at/music/ccr.htm

Commentby rhp6033— 9/8/06@ 9:09 am

Rhp you make a great point, but you can add Bill Clinton to the list and he did not join any military, but supported the NVA. Oh I did correct a few spelling errors but left John Fogerty song along. You chaps should avoid looking up a dead horse ass and come up with some new, but the song is one of my favorites.

Facts Support My Positions: Got any facts to support your accusations? No? Thought not. Too bad your sign off is a lie, just like the rest of your post.

Rove didn’t commit treason.

But Maria Cantwell did funnel taxpayer money to her boyfriend so he could pay off her loan. Nothing like violating Senate ethics rules for a little personal benefit.

Just sent another $25 Burner’s way in honor of Bush’s Brain’s visit. I’m guessing this might be more of a fundraising coup for Darcy.

Goldy and Gang does Burner support this source for her information for not fighting the War on terror?

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_STF.htm
THE DANCING ISRAELIS

Like most Americans, I was gripped by senses of profound shock, horror, revulsion, sadness, and rage as I watched the horror of September 11, 2001 unfolding live on my television screen. Watching the mass murder of thousands of innocent people live on television was the most upsetting experience of my life. How could any person of sound moral character not be enraged at witnessing this horrific act of barbarism? To read about some faraway, long-ago genocide in a newspaper or a book is distressing enough. But to actually witness the mass murders of what was, at first, believed to have been tens of thousands of innocent people is truly heart stopping and traumatic. I barely slept for two nights afterwards and suffered nightmares. Polling data would later reveal that 65% of Americans actually shed tears on 9-11.

and therefore triggers the gift tax.

Why do we want a Senator that violates ethics rules and evades taxes?

Commentby Janet S— 9/8/06@ 10:18 am

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Currently, gifting over $12,000 to any one individual triggers an event, but does not necessasrily trigger the gift tax. Suppose I give you $15,000 today. That gift exceeds the standard $12,000 tax-free gift amount. Let’s further assume I have yet to use any of my estate exclusion, so I can pass $1,000,000 to my heirs through the “gift” of my estate. By since I’m giving you $15,000 today, I’m “using” $3,000-worth of that $1,000,000 this year ($15,000 – $12,000 = $3,000).

The IRC requires me to file a gift form because I’ve exceeded the $12,000 limit, but no taxes will be due because all I’ve done is “use” $3,000 of my $1,000,000.

If I drop dead in a few years and make no more gifts to anyone, the amount of my estate that can pass tax-free to my heris is $997,000 because I “used” $3,000 this year.

So, just because Maria Cantwell “gives” somebody some money by not collecting a debt-owed does not necessarily she is avoiding taxes. Most likely, she would only be using-up a little of her $1,000,000 tax-free transfer amount.

It was generally the poor and working-class that ended up in the jungle, except for a few who volunteered for patriotic reasons (which diminished in number considerably as the war progressed).
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rhp6033,

Good point! The same could also said about the War Between the States, a.k.a. The Civil War Lots of folks weren’t too keen on getting killed or dying of disease. There were ways of avoiding service, on both sides of the conflict!

rhp – this is painful, but I have to agree with you in regards to Reichert’s campaign. I haven’t seen much evidence of one being waged, I’m not sure what he is waiting for. It is frustrating.

And no, Clinton did not support the NVA, he protested against the war.

Sit down dear, we need to talk.

You see, in this world if you protest the war, you are in fact supporting the NVA.

If you are skeptical of the war in Iraq or the squeezing of civil rights by anti-terrorism laws, you want the terrorists to win, you want to be praying to Mecca five times a day, and you want to have your mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters wrapped in burkas.

If you aren’t convinced that cutting taxes and privatizing everything in the public sector that isn’t nailed down is a good idea, you hate capitalism and want everyone dressed in badly fitting blue clothing like they did in that 1984 book.

As long as the world is explained with the correct with-us-or-against us mentality, everything makes perfect sense, and you will understand why we believe how we believe.

歡迎大右派文化大革命

(If you install Chinese fonts on your machine, that will read: “Welcome to the Great Conservative Cultural Revolution!” Since we believe in traditional values, we don’t use any of those newfangled simplified characters the commies do over in Mainland China neither)

Libertarian at 15: Yes, the “War Between the States”, (or the “American Civil War”, or the “War for Southern Independence”, or the “War to Preserve the Union” depending upon your point of view) was probably the first war which earned the label “rich man’s fight, poor man’s war”. This was true of both sides.

Under the Conscription Act in the north, someone with enough money could either (a) pay a fee to get a “bye” from the current draft lottery, but he was still subject to being called again in the next lottery, or (b) hire a substitute to serve for him. Wealthy citizens also financed supplemental bonuses to be paid to recruits from their districts – if enough volunteered locally, there would be no draft in that district. But the Union soldiers and commanders had very poor opinions of the qualities of conscripts, substitutes, or “bonus men”, feeling that they required to much effort to guard and supervise them, and that they tended to “melt away” in actual combat, but would mysteriously “re-appear” when it was time to eat.

The Confederates enacted more or less universal conscription much earlier, and encompassing a wider age range (up to 45 for most of the war, I think it was 55 at the very end). But it had some important exemptions, including provisions exempting overseers of slaves and some militia members (there was a ratio of slave to overseer which applied, but I don’t remember it right now). U.S. Grant said in his autobiography that by the end of the war, virtually every Southern male was in the military in one form or another.

I think WWII was probably the war which was most “democratic” in terms of both rich and poor serving. This was probably due to the social stigma which attached to any male of military age which didn’t have a good reason for not being in uniform. But even then, the exemption available for college students gave an “out” to any family with enough money to send their son to college. FDR supported the exemption, saying that he didn’t want to denude America intellectually of trained young people. It could also have been supported on the grounds that otherwise, colleges might have been forced to close due to lack of enough students to support their budgets. But back then, before the G.I. Bill, and the availability of student grants and loans, only the rich could send their sons to college, and therefore only the rich had that method of getting out of the draft.

I did know of one fellow during WWII who not only was not drafted, but was rejected from volunteering three times. He failed the physical, as his eyes were “too slanted”. He was Nisei, the son of Japanese parents. He wasn’t sent to relocation camps because he already lived in Yakima, and as he said, “they couldn’t think of anywhere worse to send us”.

“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers.

Commentby Janet S— 9/8/06@ 10:18 am

“Maria Cantwell is evading taxes. If she collected on her loan from Dotzauer, she would have to pay taxes on the accrued interest. If she has no intention of collecting on the loan, it makes it a gift that is substantially over the gifting limit, and therefore triggers the gift tax.”

Two questions on this. First, what evidence do you have that she does not intend to collect on the loan? I’ve made loans to friends in the past, some of whom have yet to repay me. They will when they can, although it might be years.

Second, what evidence do you have that she is charging Mr. Dotzauer interest? When I loan money to friends I do not ask for interest, even on some rather large loans. Of course, I haven’t loaned anyone $50K, but my personal resources are somewhat more limited than Ms. Cantwell’s.

From an earlier post:

“Maria Cantwell did funnel taxpayer money to her boyfriend so he could pay off her loan. Nothing like violating Senate ethics rules for a little personal benefit.”

Perhaps I missed something, but this is a new claim for me. Exactly what are you talking about here?

Oh, and by the way. While I’m not a big fan of Mr. Rove, I do agree that with the (rather convenient and very delayed) confession of Mr. Armitage, there is what a jury would call “reasonable doubt” that Mr. Rove did deliberately reveal Ms. Plame’s name to the press. So, perhaps we should refrain from calling him a “traitor”, a term that the right wing seems to equate with all Democrats and liberals.

Still, he may not be the best person to send out on a fund-raising mission for local Republicans. Hmmmm. Wait a minute. From my perspective, he is exactly the person I want the Republicans to send out. Please, could you have him stand just a bit closer to Mr. Reichert and Ms. McMorris? That’s right. Arm over the shoulder. Good. Now, everyone smile for the camera…

Remember, Vote early, Vote often, Vote Democratic!!!!!!!!!!
-Commentby My Left Foot— 9/7/06@ 7:58 pm The democratic party would be the REPUBLICAN PARTY. I believe what you are so ineptly attempting to say is ‘vote democrat’… you do understand the difference, don’t you? Commentby howcanyoubePROUDtobeanASS— 9/7/06@ 8:20 pm

No he be too stupid to comprehend the semantic differences of life!

Commentby Puddybud Mo Money Ray Nagin [……………………………………………………………………….Correct, PUD Kennedy Nagin, Carl Grossman, liberal idiot, is too stupid to understand the difference!]

To the bet-welshing, lying coward called MTR:

1) Pay off the bet YOU LOST to Goldy!

2) A “moonbat” publication called The Economist otherwise know as the voice of global capitalism has just editorialized the following:

Mr Bush has got two years left in the job. He would like to be remembered as a straightshooter who did the right thing. Tackling climate change would be one way to do that.

Read it and take your chi-squared bullshit over there.

JSA at 19: You didn’t refer to my entire quote. I said:

“And no, Clinton did not support the NVA, he protested against the war. Trying to get the bus driver from driving head-on into a brick wall doesn’t mean you are doing it because you love the wall.”

I remember well when Bill Clinton had the Navy launch cruise missles at Iraq (forcing them back into the inspection program), and the Republicans louldy complained that he was only taking that action to divert attention from his domestic problems. I guess this means that since they were protesting the President’s actions against Iraq, that means they supported Saddam Hussein?

Lets be consistent here. I’m tired of Republicans applying double-standards. Anybody is free in the U.S. to criticize a government official if they think their policy is wrong, without being labeled a traitor. That includes both Democrats and Republicans, and regardless of who is in office.

I’m actually a pretty conservative fellow myself (fiscally and culturally). I believe in a balanced budget, but support reasonable taxes and well-planned investments in infrastructure. I also happen to be an evangelical Christian. I also believe in a strong defense which is only applied overseas sparingly and wisely. I grew up in the South, I’m of Scots-Irish descent, and I was a marksman (BB gun by age eight, 30.08 calabre at 14, M-14 by age 16). I was also an Eagle Scout.

But here I am, a Democrat. Why is that? Because over the past forty years or so, I saw large discrepencies between what the Republicans say, and what they actually do.

Republicans say they want to balance the budget, but actually increase budget deficits by several orders of magnitude in order to support their tax cuts (Reagan and W. Bush presidencies). They say they want a strong defense, but are complete idiots when they apply it overseas without any knowledge of the history, culture, or the real current politics or social conditions of the area. (Instead, they tend to think only in black-and-white terms which may not apply to a local situation: Communists vs. Anti-Communists, Islamic-Fascists vs. Christians/Jews, etc.). They rally votes from fundamentalist Christians with cultural issues, but put their issues on the lowest priority when it comes to their real agenda (tax cuts for the wealthy and federal contracts for their supporters), and they tend to confuse “cultural” with “Christian” issues.

And the hypocrasy is just amazing. I remember in 1992 hearing Republicans insist that only a combat veteran (George H.W. Bush) is qualified to ever serve as President (yet in 2004 they reversed course, saying any military service is the same). In 2000 they righously huffed that no one should criticize George W. Bush for serving in the Texas National Guard, or question the details of his service, yet in 2004 they financed a smear campaign against Kerry, a real combat veteran. In 1980 they claimed that all budget deficits were bad, but by 1984 they were insisting that there was nothing wrong with budget deficits, because “we owe it to ourselves” (a convenient argument which ignores the distinction between taxpayer and bond-holder, and doesn’t take into account the T-bills held by foreigners and their governments).

In short, every time I’ve gotten mad with the Democratic party and start to look for alternatives, the Republicans remind me why I don’t vote with them. The Democrats engage in pecadillos from time-to-time, but the Republicans loot the national treasury and try to sell of our public assets.

By the way, I do have Kanji fonts loaded on my computer, but I still can’t see your reference to Chinese characters – it only shows square blocks.

I am really sorry if you have a problem with me calling a traitor a traitor.

Maybe I am just supposed to sit quietly by, and watch Bush, and his Republican criminal friends destroy my country.

Not me baby.

WASHINGTON – Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan. Cantwell, a Democrat who is in a tight re-election race…–snip–Ethics experts…said she should have avoided helping the clients or made sure the loan was repaid before she helped.

Everybody forgets that Maria Cantpay got elected by pledging her stock in a dotcom start up that tanked … so she didn’t have enough $$$$ to pay off the loans.

She had to sell herself to Hillary! and others, including crooked RAT infested lobbyists and others to pay off her fraudulent loan.

Don’t see much of that in the paper. But Lord help us if Tom DeLay has an unpaid parking ticket … Stop the presses!

“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers.

Commentby Facts Support My Positions— 9/8/06@ 12:03 pm

“I am really sorry if you have a problem with me calling a traitor a traitor.”

Not really. My personal opinion of Mr. Rove is probably not much different from yours. The term “traitor” has been so over-used these days that it no longer seems to hold much meaning.

I think that the Republicans are making a terrible mistake in using him for fund raising. Perhaps they’ve already given up on these races, and are simply trying to get a bit more $$$ from the local party faithful for other races where they think that they still have a chance.

Now, if we could just get them to do a few more photo ops with the Vice President and the local Republican candidates, that would probably put this election in the bag for us.

N in Seattle at 33: I was working hard to be over-inclusive, bringing in people from both parties. Others have alleged that he didn’t really have much of a back problem, I just haven’t had time to look at that issue yet.

I don’t have anything against 4-F. Apparantly I would have been draftable during the WWII or Vietnam drafts, but when I actually volunteered for the reserves in 1980 I was rejected due to my poor eysight.

Of course, it depends upon how badly they need warm bodies. I have a nephew who got into some minor scrapes with the law as a juvenile, which was enough for them to reject him for military service when he turned 18 in 2003. But now they are telling him its not a problem, and they are actively recruiting him.

I’m not sure at what stage Dean was declared 4-F, but as a medical doctor, John Dean could have been called into the military on rather short notice if he was really needed. He was probably more valuable to the military being “on the shelf”, going through medical school on his own dime, than he would have been as a draftee.

SO, Goldy…is Cantwell diddling Dotzauer or vice-versa?

JCH is off to hs usal rants at # 34, with no attempt to relate it to facts. Just to set the record straight: Cantwell gave a loan TO a personal friend and campaign manager who later became a lobbyist. That means he owes HER a favor, not the other way around. As a conflict-of-interest allegation, this makes NO SENSE. JCH quoted: “Ethics experts…said she should have avoided helping the clients or made sure the loan was repaid before she helped.” But as someone posting above pointed out, repaying the loan before bringing the clients to Cantwell would have been more of a potential problem than if it were allowed to remain as an unpaid loan.

JCH continued: “Everybody forgets that Maria Cantpay got elected by pledging her stock in a dotcom start up that tanked …”

Again, a misrepresentation of the facts on several fronts. Cantwell won the election on the issues, and her opponant was quite well financed too. RealNetworks did not “tank”, it is still in business, although the stock value did diminish in value during the collapse of the technology stocks and post- 9/11 stock market crashes.

JCH said: “She had to sell herself to Hillary! and others, including crooked RAT infested lobbyists and others to pay off her fraudulent loan.”

Nothing fraudulent about the loan, and your claim otherwise is an outright lie. And your allegations of Cantwell turning to “RAT invested lobbyist” is completely unsupported and also a lie.

This thing is just an attempt to try to muddy the waters to cover McGavick’s receipt of an apparant 28.4 million campaign contribution/bribe from Safeco. Trying to call Cantwell’s campaign contribution to herself, duly reported, as a “fraudulent loan” is outright laughable in comparison with McGavick’s apparant post-resignation bribe from Safeco.

JCH said: “But Lord help us if Tom DeLay has an unpaid parking ticket”. This is an obvious blatant misrepresentation of DeLay’s attempts to launder an illegal campaign contribution through multiple fronts, which is only one instant of many highly ethically-challenged money issues with which he was involved.

I really loved the one where the State of Texas established a public-relations department in Washington D.C. to support its interests there (isn’t that what DeLay was supposed to be doeing?), then used taxpayer money to hire a lobbying firm on its behalf, which then made large contributions to Republican candidates and PAC’s. Nothing like making the taxpayer pay for your re-election campaign to preserve power (unless its gerrymandering)!

Klake
You are illiterate. Your posts are grammatically incomprehensible. Such inability to write a coherent sentence indicates that your thoughts could not possibly be organized. Of course, that explains your political views. Keep your thoughts to yourself rather than embarrassing yourself publicly.

“According to a White House announcement, American Idol runner up, Clay Aiken will be appointed to the Presidents Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Clay said he is going to start working immediately on President Bush and then continue with the rest of the White House.”

http://www.bobrivers.com/onthe.....de=article

Klake at 41: I don’t even understand that post at all, I doubt anybody does.

Commentby rhp6033— 9/8/06@ 1:31 pm

The best one I saw was the chap stuck a mouse up his ass so the doctor could only see the tail. I work they help him out the door and told him not to come back.

Sorry rhp about the clicks and burps. In the year of 1966 we were all doing medical checkups to determine who was going to be drafted. Before your time, darning the Viet Nam War they required everyone to show up for a physical. One chap didn’t want to be drafted into the military, so to get a 4F rating he stuck a mouse up his ass. Mind you the mouse was alive before he left home. The doctors discovered the mouse along with those chaps whose sphincter mussel would not stay shut. The dude with the mouse was mentally off and the others were considered gay. Those lucky chaps were excluded from the military. As you can see you did not have to join the National Guard to avoid Viet Nam.

You are illiterate. Your posts are grammatically incomprehensible. Such inability to write a coherent sentence indicates that your thoughts could not possibly be organized. Of course, that explains your political views. Keep your thoughts to yourself rather than embarrassing yourself publicly.

Comment by proud leftist— 9/8/06@ 1:32 pm

I really wanted your proud support, and you being smarter than everyone you only embarrassing yourself publicly. Remember love and peace.

Wow, that was cool.

An actual Vietnam draft story, as told to me by someone who was personally involved (but was not the draftee):

During the early 1970’s, the college student deferrment was eliminated, and the traditional draft board selection process was replaced with a nationwide lottery. The order in which your birth date was drawn determined your likelihood of being called up during the next year. It really was a much fairer system, although “what’s your number?” became a common subject of discussion (and anxiety) on college campuses.

One fellow who was facing a near-certain draft decided to put his studies to work for him. He was double-majoring in sociology and psychology, and his studies of BF Skinner and “conditioned response” led him to believe that if the right stimuli were applied, he could be made to flunk the physical.

So with the help of several “assistants” (fellow students), he set up an experiment utilizing a blood-pressure monitoring device, and an electric-shop therapy. Basically, everytime they put the blood pressure cup on him and started pumping it up, they gave him a series of unpleasant electric shocks.

Soon, the very sight of a blood pressure cuff would cause his blood pressure to jump through the roof.

When he took his physical, the physicians suspected something was wrong. After all, he was a young man in apparantly good physical condition, why should his blood pressure be so high? So they put him in the hospital for several days, taking blood tests on a regular basis in addition to the blood pressure tests, to see if he had been using some drugs to automatically elevate his blood pressure. No such luck for them, his pressure continued to remain high every time they tested him, and no drugs were found in his system.

So they gave him a 4-F, and he didn’t have to worry about the draft any more. But on the other side of the coin, he still cannot buy life insurance – he fails the physical every time they take his blood pressure.

CaughtInTheMiddle @ 55

How about:

“There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush’s justification for going to war. ”

“The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.”

“It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam’s government ”did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.”

Do you want the lies Bush told, or the lies Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice told too?

As for lying, Bush asked for authorization to use force from congress claiming he would only use force as a last option, even after telling the British (downing st memo) when the bombing was to begin.

Every time they mentioned mushroom cloud, it was a lie. Saddam had not nuclear weapons program, and they knew it. Sorry Dick.

Atta did not go to Checkoslovakia. Sorrry Dick.

Head of CIA Drumheller told them he had an insider on Saddam’s council, and they told him there were now wmd’s. They told him it was a matter of regime change, not intelligence.

The list goes on, and on. I am getting tired of typing.

If you think Bush, and his lying cabal did not lie you must live in an alternate universe. In the real world a lie is a lie.

Oh remember North, South, East, and West of Tikrit and Baghdad Rumsfeld? He “knew” where the WMD’s were.

They lied. Deal with the fact that our leaders committed what amounts to treason.

Hey Wingnuts,

Check out this traitor!

I don’t agree with some of what he says but he sure is pissed!

Had enough? Vote Democrat!

I tend to side with the ones who tend to keep government out of my knickers.

Then you don’t want to vote for the Republicans.

Okay, getting back to Darcy, and her recent poll results and fundraising numbers:

I think Reichert must have been seeing these same numbers last week, hence Rove’s trip out here to support the Reichert campaign. It really is a testiment to Darcy’s campaign, and the anti-Bush backlash, that a seat which was considered “safe” for the Republicans just a few months ago is now in serious jeapardy.

Reichert’s original strategy was to ignore the challenger, in order to not give her any greater name recognition or credibility as a “real” challenge. But I think with Rove’s appearance, we are seeing that strategy being tanked. Instead, I expect the Republicans to begin putting some real money into the race, probably with a blitz of negative TV ads, probably by third-parties so Reichert can take the position that he is “above the fray”.

rhp6033 @ 30:

Thanks for taking the time to explain yourself.

I was making a rather facetious comment. Don’t read too much into it.

I don’t know why my hanzi scribblings aren’t showing up. There is not a single character set that is used to display DBCS fonts. (i.e., when we write in English, it’s always ASCII or a close superset thereof. A single character set). I know of at least five that are still in common use in Asia, and there are doubtless others I’m not aware of. It’s not that interesting to read Chinese anyhow.

“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers.

Commentby howcanyoubePROUD — 9/8/06@ 4:24 pm

Just spotted this one. Thanks. Very funny.

Commentby YO— 9/8/06@ 10:55 pm

Um, YO? – Hmmm. On second thought, never mind. Your post speaks for itself. Carry on.

My mind is like a fog.
I don’t care.
That’s how it is.

What’s that you say? Big, manly Dave is getting beaten by a girl? I though he was so well liked in his district. What’s up with those Medinaites? Did they spend all their tax cuts?

Great news! I have to wonder if Reichert raised any non-Bush money this quarter.

to outraise an incumbent in one quarter is quite a feat. to outraise one in two consecutive quarters is amazing. but to do it two in a row after the president came to boost the numbers is down right incredible.

does make you wonder: were Tebelius and Reichert lying when they said the Bush visit pulled in $800,000?

Carl wonders about Reichert’s (seemingly non-existent) fundraising prowess. I wondered too, though I did it in a comment over on Goldy’s dKos diary (please recommend both the diary and my comment).

Basically, the Bu$h fundraiser must have taken in between $200K and $400K for Reichert, out of something like $830K taken in during the event (the take from the photo ops with Dubya, at $10K a pop, went to the WSRP instead). So, somewhere between 35 and 70 percent of Reichert’s entire 2Q funding arose from those couple of hours with Dubya.

Add to the ever-expanding list of things that Reichert is incapable of doing for himself — raising money.

WASHINGTON, (AP) — Before California’s Republican governor tried to get tough on illegal immigrants in the 1990s, the state had supported GOP candidates in all but two presidential elections since World War II. California has been a solid blue state ever since the attempted crackdown, in part because of a backlash by the growing number of Hispanic voters. Democrats hope to replicate that success nationally…

Are these the illegal aliens the RATS have been encouraging to commit voter fraud by voting illegally?

9, cont………………Kalifornia: Democrat “Baja Norte”. Lots of new Democrat tax receivers [imcoming] as the Republican tax payers [outgoing] leave. Atlas has Shrugged. Don’t believe me? Go visit South Cebtral LA.

Even more important than how much money they raise is who they’re beholden to. RubberStampReichert owes his campaign slush fund to (a) Bush, and (b) Alaska oil interests.

Not hard to figure out how he’d vote on more tankers in Puget Sound.

Meanwhile at the bat cave called Seattle 1/3 of families forgo free public education and opt for private schools. Atlas has shrugged.

Of course government unions work great to keep child molesters out of jail.

I guess this explains why the puuurfect haired one stole $536,000 for the US taxpayers to send out his campaign mailings.
What a thief.

The Bush Twins were in public school until their ninth arrest for illegal substance consumption and that train they pulled on the football team. Then they were sent to a school for troubled girls who’s parents were DUI recipients.

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Why K I can think of two to three that happened in Settle in the last year. Dont you remember the Janitor and the teacher at Broadview Thompson who got caught. The stories were is both the liberal rag newspapers. Oh wait, you and you ilk dont pay attention to thoses stories because you are OK with child rapist being in the Seattle public schools. Nevermind. Hehe

Not to worry, Dave can always read a teleprompter.

Me and Joe can ghost write a book for Dave.

So, tell us again Janet S and R. Pope, how Sheriff Dave is unbeatable in the 8th.

How does he connect with the voters? He won’t speak to them and they don’t give him money. Other than that, he’s a rock star.

Goldstein, thanks for the tip about Darcy’s whereabouts.
I was wondering since she hasn’t been seen at all campaigning in the Eighth Congressional district. Looks like she’s been too busy hitting up her friends in the 206 area code (sans Mercer Island) for funds.
I’d work on your message, though. “Vote for Darcy because she raised half-a-mil” isn’t going to resonate with most voters.

Who cares where Darcy’s money comes from? At least it’s coming from Washington state. You righties don’t care that people like McGavick is getting millions from Alaska. Of course this whole line of thinking requires you to find a shred of intellectual honesty which is not possible if you’re a republican.

Goldy,

Just reread your post. Ballsy strategy you have there. Don’t vote for Dave because he led the task force which caught the Green River Killer. I’m sure that will play real well in Auburn, Kent, Covington, Black Diamond and Renton.
As a hint , Goldy, just because I like you and the fact that you’re a recent transplant to Washington state and probably don’t know any better. I’d try to downplay or ignore the whole Gary Ridgeway thing if I were a progressive Democrat. Not too much traction to be gained outside of the liberal blogosphere.

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What was the purpose of your comment that included “Steve Largent’s son, Kramer”. It appeared that you to were trying to associate the behaviour of one generation another. Was the the purpose of your post?

32:And on July 6, she and Jay Inslee crashed a regularly scheduled King County YR meeting.

Commentby Reporterward— 7/15/06@ 3:47 pm

Did they really do that? As that commonplace?

18: Killatroll – where did you find evidence of such a thing? I couldn’t find anything. That’s pretty harsh if it is not true.

Janet: Running for the House is hardly starting at the top. And if you don’t like the “poor candidates” put up against Reichert, don’t vote for ’em.

And as for resumes, what did Bush’s look like before he became governor of Texas. I guess it doesn’t take a fabulous resume, does it?

Hey, it was the DNA that did it. To be fair, he was on a list suspects all along. Hard to catch those guys.

Why did it take Sheriff Davie 20 years to catch the Green RIver killer? Was it because he was hiding from the killer all those years the way he hides from Darcy now?

Little-bit-late Howie: we already know that cuz somebody else posted it first. Duh.

Darcy Burner –
She will bring her same security knowledgebase she had at Microsoft, to American national security. She pledges to make our borders as secure as Internet Explorer!

That’s an interesting way to put it . . . who determines fair? You? I would expect you to post “Reichert to win” . . . (also, you might spell his name correctly)

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“As for dogs and cats, I leave that to your husband Janet S who would no doubt much rather fuck a dog or a cat than you.

Commentby LeftTurn— 7/15/06@ 5:52 pm”

Left Turn – your comments as always are sick and an insult to your intelligence or lack of.. To try and brand people who respond with an insult about their sexual orientation would get you fired in most organizations and businesses. Why do you persist in showing your sick bias on this blog and why you should not be banned?

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As I recall, elite private schools are notorious for their students being molested.

WOO HOO I told you the chicks are better :-)

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That is because in public schools they dont call it “molestation” rather it called a “job transfer” Union rules you know.

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“swift boat” is a synonym for “lie” and “smear”

At least he was trying to catch the green river killer and not trying to give the killer rights and family & friend (RP)discounts!

Roger,

I take it, you don’t like Kerry. He slammed his Vietnam brothers immediately following the war by calling them all murderers, rapists, and Ghenis Khan followers………

Killatroll sez: Rufus, again, I would point out that Steve Largent’s son, Kramer, stands indicted for child rape. I assume he was raised along the finest guidelines of Republican,Christo-Fascist guidelines.

Commentby killatroll/saveablog— 7/15/06@ 12:57 pm

That assumes his politics are as his fathers. Are your politics the same as your father’s politics?

Little-bit-late Howie: we already know that cuz somebody else posted it first. Duh.

Commentby Skagit— 7/15/06@ 7:38 pm

At least one lefty (claimed independent) here isn’t a moonbat!

Yeah Puddy. I wonder what leftturd looks like with his super dooper camera glasses on. He was using a pair to spy on a church. Did you get any good pictures left turd. Hahaha you moron lefties are hilarious.

@2: “I don’t see how it makes much difference who has more money at this point.”

This might explain why you never win any elections, Richard.

#72 should have been addressed to sillyguy . . .

Silly. . . try this link . . . if you dare. (I don’t know why the other one doesn’t open from HA; it does from my desktop . . . )

http://factcheck.org/article231.html

So let’s talk about Sherrif Dave. Many of you were so happy to jump on Dean Logan for problems in the Elections Office. Does Sheffif Dave have any responsibility for the problems in the KCSO?

76 “Refuse” (like in garbage) FK: read it you shallow coward. Then respond.

Dont dwell to long on it because you wont come up with anything. Save you breath.

Did Bush?

Yes

#80 RuFuK: try reading it again:

Republican-funded Group Attacks Kerry’s War Record
Ad features vets who claim Kerry “lied” to get Vietnam medals. But other witnesses disagree — and so do Navy records.

August 6, 2004
Modified:August 22, 2004
Summary

A group funded by the biggest Republican campaign donor in Texas began running an attack ad Aug. 5 in which former Swift Boat veterans claim Kerry lied to get one of his two decorations for bravery and two of his three purple hearts.
But the veterans who accuse Kerry are contradicted by Kerry’s former crewmen, and by Navy records.

One of the accusers says he was on another boat “a few yards” away during the incident which won Kerry the Bronze Star, but the former Army lieutenant whom Kerry plucked from the water that day backs Kerry’s account. In an Aug. 10 opinion piece in the conservative Wall Street Journal , Rassmann (a Republican himself) wrote that the ad was “launched by people without decency” who are “lying” and “should hang their heads in shame.”

And on Aug. 19, Navy records came to light also contradicting the accusers. One of the veterans who says Kerry wasn’t under fire was himself awarded a Bronze Star for aiding others “in the face of enemy fire” during the same incident.

Back to the original subject of this post – darcy.

http://www.darcyburner.com/aboutdarcy.php
Darcy has been active in her community and in state politics.

Anyone yet figured out what exactly she has been active at in her community? Or what she has done in state politics? Besides being the president of her little gated community, what has she done? Really, this isn’t a trick question. If you can’t answer it, it means you agree that she has embellished her resume and has a major problem with the truth.

Rufus, do you want to compare Bush’s time in the South, skipping physicals with Kerry’s in Viet Nam? Say what you will about the records, restate the lies told. Who do you think was at greater risk?

K – I never mentioned Logan. I was just trying to answer why Reichert seemingly did nothing to clean up the KCSO. Sue Rahr is stuck with the same situation, and is having the same experience. Electing an official doesn’t make it any easier to fight corruption. If you are making the same connection to the elections office, well, that is your presumption.

If you want to talk the talk (I am a Vietnam hero) you better walk the walk.

RuFuK: 81 & 82 are imminently forgettable . . . so, answer the charge: you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. Right?

I love talking about the swift boat veteran with donks. It is so easy to kick the shit out of them. hehe

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I would love to but there is not enough information. Let me know when you find a copy of Kerry’s miltary medical records and will talk. hehe

RuFuK; Double posting. . . must be that agent orange nervous twitch . . . you are a shitload of lies and any medal (which you probably don’t have anyway) that might be in your possesion should be given back immediately. You are obviouisly a coward now and were a coward then. The cowards of the world shout and rail the loudest. So, keep it up . . . COWARD.

Many people predicted the pickle we are in when the KCSO was converted over into an elected position from being an appointive position. The pendulum swings. The possibility of incompetence (non-reponsiveness as well) or corruption exists with both forms. Those old enough to remember Sherrif Tim McCullough (sp?) will remember the endless Grand Jury investigations and some indictments that resulted in the change over to an appointive position. In Pierce county the Sherrif was implicated because of massive corruption and involvement with organized crime figures. Curiously enough, some people maintained he was just too dumb to be directly involved. . . .
People with a background in law-enforcement will recognize that there are problems with both forms. . .but generally an appointive position in a large metropolitan center will result in
a more professional approach, not subject to many of the drawbacks that pressure to please will be found in more rural jurisdictions. (I admit a bias.) It is,though,a conundrum.
My feeling, though, is that Dave Reichert is too stupid to excell in merely terms of merit and professionalism. His forte is in the “hail-fellow-well-met” field. . .simply not up to the challenge at the KCSO level, nor the US House.

Ooh, ReFuK, gettin’ reasonable now, huh?

They got sour grapes because he came back and testified against the war. That’s a wound that’s been festering for thirty years with some of you.

John McNeil (is that his name?) – the guy to testified to Congress disputing Kerry’s testimony also has a grudge to grind. He was as big a part of this as anybody and he wasn’t there either.

MONEY, honey. The republican money bags got these guys some fame, notoriety, and probably they got a few vacations out of it. Hell, I don’t know . . . but you know what people will do for a little celebrity. These guys became stars. . . but now they are back to being nobodies and their legacies are trashed reputations.

Elliott-the commander who backtracked-finally said he didn’t really know first hand.

Navy records show he told the truth.

MY QUESTION TO YOU:
Why would Kerry’s shipmates (guys on his boat – you know, fighting next to him) stand up for him? Including an editor at the Chicago Tribune who was silent on Viet Nam for thirty years and finally came forth to set the record straight out of his own integrity?

George Janovich, and five others, were convicted under the RICO Statutes in November of 1979. George Janovich was the last elected sherrif in Pierce County. Many people, and I am one, feel that Sue Rahr should be the last elected sherrif in King County. I will never was hand selected by Dave Reichert to be his successor.

I cannot recall the exact Latin, but it translated something like this: If you cannot be trusted in small matters, How can you be trusted in great ones?. Dave Reichert was a dangerously incompetent sherrif, and is equally incompetent as a Representative.

Either that, or get work as a stand-in for Leslie Nielsen.

killatroll/saveablog –
Dave can select whoever he wants, but the position is voted on. Are you aware of that?

“These are trying times,and we need people who are well educated, motivated,and capable of solving problems. Darcy Burner qualifies. Dave Reichert Does Not”

Can you point me to one thing that darcy has done that would support this statement? Not her rhetoric, which is cheap, but her actions, her accomplishments. She couldn’t handle the pressure of msft, law school, or parenting. What makes you think she can act in congress? She is well educated, but that about concludes her resume.

These are times that require tough thinking and action. Got confidence that Darcy won’t melt down and have a tantrum or cry? She was so excited after deciding to run for office that she caused a car accident.

Janet, she has not presided over one of the most dysfunctional law enforcement agencies in the State. She has not appointed an incompetent authoritarian to succeed her. She has not turned a blind eye to criminal, outrageous and unacceptable behavior by her subordinates. She has not endangered the public well being and safety by her incompetence and inaction.
Dave Reichert, on the other hand, can be brought to book for all of these. . .

Janet, we know you are an immoral troll with no standards outside of partisan hackery, but why display your travesty of honesty here? You are verge on treason in your support of the current makeup of the House.

JANET: “Anyone yet figured out what exactly she has been active at in her community? Or what she has done in state politics? Besides being the president of her little gated community, what has she done?

First of all, you answered your own question. What has she done? I would surmise being president of her community (your word – gated – again shows how disingenuous you are) could be considered the first rung in a political career.

Second, you are the one who makes a resume a big deal. Nobody else.

CAN YOU FINALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION: WHAT WAS BETTER ABOUT BUSH’S PRE-GOV RESUME? Must be something since you have determined that a resume is a big deal.

I’m going to keep asking till you think of an answer.

So let’s recap. Janet S starts talking about RubberStampReichert. Gets her ass kicked (as usual) tries to bring the thread back on topic (after getting her ass kicked) runs from every single post that puts her on the hot seat, and goes for her old tired, “why should I vote for Darcy” act when she can’t or won’t tell us why we should vote for the guy who let the KCSO turn into a criminal enterprise, the guy who took two decades to catch a high school drop out who murdered dozens of people, the guy who votes with George Bush 99% of the time….JanetS can’t tell us why we should vote for a dude who has 30% approval numbers. Boring. Janet you’re just getting boring. Re-Read Coulter’s book and at least start quoting a new plagerized passage won’t you?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ss16m.html

Pretty much says it all. There is some interesting stuff here. First of all, the only dirt they can dig on Darcy is that she’s a Harvard grad. And secondly, I love the lie from RubberStampReichert’s thug that says Reichert is focused on doing his job. Is that why he’s spending taxpayer money to send free campaign brochures to his district?

In any event, it’s bad news for Sheriff Davie. The fact that we’re even talking about this shows just how bad off the culture of corruption republicans really are. No Dem has EVER won in the 8th. The mere fact that it’s in play really troubles the trolls.

Reichert is toast. The only sad souls in the 8th voting for Dave are the drunks outside the Ragin River Saloon. And they are only voting for him because Dave buys them booze.

It is over. Darcy is gonna rock the congress, and after Reichert’s Bush-licking limp dicked toadying to the present neocon facist regime, we all benefit. Even the to stupid to vote trolls on HA.

Get over it idiots, you had your chance and you fucked everything up. Time for the real adults to take charge.

So what, 128? Taking donations from tribes is normal political business.

Interesting definition of “outraises” there Goldy. If you mean she had more money dumped into her campaign from PACs with Washington D.C. addresses, I guess that is a true statement, but other than that she seems to be lagging by quite a bit.

Reichert: Total Of Contributions From Individuals 186388.29
Burner: Total Of Contributions From Individuals 418627.89