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I’m exhausted. I need a vacation. (A real one, with no blogging.) Anyway, go talk amongst yourselves.

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  2. Why are Mr. McGavick and Rep. Reichert unable to agree on things?

    Rep. Reichert needs to “investigate” global warming.
    Mr. McGavick says it is real.

    Mr. McGavick suggests that change is needed in the Iraq “strategy.”
    Rep. Reichert says “stay the course.”

    I suppose blindly voting an entire slate in is easier on the minds of GOP loyals than thinking about the issues and where individual candidates stand…

  4. by Goldy, 10/25/2006, 8:06 PM

    I’m exhausted. I need a vacation. (A real one, with no blogging.)

    What a whiner.

  7. Reichert must have slept through yesterday’s briefing. “Stay the course” is out. “Flexibility” is in.*

    * This doesn’t mean GOP congressmen are authorized to do their own thinking. They still must check in with Karl Rove on a daily basis. It only means they’re supposed to spout different lines from Bullshit Central.

  8. David, I wondered why you didn’t post much today. Today was eventful.

    David, did you pound too many at Montlake last night? Maybe that’s why you’re dragging. If you’re going to pound them, then you have to exercise afterward. In his drinking days, that’s how George W Bush took care of those hangovers.

    I recommend you start going to Green Lake at least four times a week, and walk or run or do a combination of both around the perimeter of the lake, a distance of 2.8 miles. Not only will your energy level increase, your mind will clear. Everyone knows your mind needs clearing. In addition, you might meet Stefan there. A discussion with him after the exercise, four times a week, would give you the added benefit of improving your mind.

  11. George Bush the draft dodging, AWOL coward NOW wants to cut and run from Iraq! What a joke. Anyone who suppors this traitor should rot in Hell!

  12. i would like to see the g.o.p. cowerd war crimanels rot in prison first on there way to rotting in hell.

  14. 11 No, not really. Some of them have individual thinking processes and advanced degrees. I meant the electorate by “GOP loyals.” Like:
    “Two of my children are getting divorced, but I support family values and can’t stand the idea of a same-sex couple being happy together. People are meant to be miserable together or happy apart, like my heterosexual children.”

    “Voting against cutting benefits for veterans is what anti-American people do. Real patriots know that risking death, dismemberment and PTSD is enough reward for our fighters, why teach them to continue to suck at the government teat with benefits?”

    “It makes total sense to me that the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, thus we go to war with Iraq. After all, my minimally-funded education has taught me Saudi Arabia and Iraq is the same country.”

    It’s safer for these GOP loyals not to try thinking unless they have some thinking buddies to help them through those huge logic gaps.

  15. It now appears that North Korea is not the only country having problems with their new missile launches. Now the Koreas have some competition for building new weapons today. Hell if the veer of the wrong way they might land on Seattle.

    MOSCOW (AP) — An experimental Russian ballistic missile veered off course and fell into the sea shortly after being test-launched from a nuclear submarine Wednesday, the country’s second launch failure in as many months, officials said.
    The Bulava missile was launched from underwater in the White Sea northeast of St. Petersburg toward a testing range on the far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula, but it veered off its designated flight path minutes after liftoff. The missile broke apart and its fragments fell into the sea, the navy said.
    The botched launch signaled serious problems with the much-lauded Bulava.
    The previous Bulava launch, from the same submarine in September, also ended in failure, prompting Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to urge quick action to prevent the mishap from damaging plans for commissioning new Borei-class submarines.
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Te.....64-ap.html

  16. When William F.Buckley, Jr. reclines in his leather chair and sparkles his smile at me and the big words come flying out of his gnarly piehole, that’s when I’m proud to be an American.

    Where the hell is Oprah? I need fifty bucks.

  17. I’ll tell you what! Next to Rosie O’Donnell, Oprah’s Miss America!! So don’t go wagging your finger at me and calling me “Mr. Gigalo”!

  20. ATJ,

    Were we in Wisconsin, a line like that would have landed you in the State PUNitentiary, in WaPUN, for PUNishment.

  21. Well Folks right off the press form bin Laudin and friends new Campaign film for the Socialist Democrats. Remember Kiss them on both cheeks and they will spare your life and bless your children. We from the caves of Pakistan thank you for all your support and we just hung a picture of Ted Kennedy in our Cave. My Mohammad Bless you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19OwEE7bunw

  22. You’re a disgrace to the Grand Old Party, klake. Oprah won’t read your book nor will she recommend it to others!

  23. Thought I’d post the current # of ballots cast state wide. Looks like this thing could be pretty much rapped up by Tuesday.

    County___ BallotsCast___ LastMatchback
    Adams__ 362 ballots___ 10/25/2006 5:21:46 PM
    Benton__ 3438 ballots___ 10/24/2006 11:55:21 AM
    Chelan__ 1544 ballots___ 10/24/2006 6:28:15 PM
    Clallam__ 2232 ballots___ 10/24/2006 2:06:31 PM
    Clark__ 13822 ballots___ 10/25/2006 10:50:18 AM
    Columbia__ 275 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:11:58 PM
    Douglas__ 446 ballots___ 10/23/2006 6:02:53 PM
    Franklin__ 2271 ballots___ 10/25/2006 10:50:18 AM
    Grant__ 86 ballots___ 10/23/2006 6:02:53 PM
    Grays Harbor__ 840 ballots___ 10/23/2006 3:53:54 PM
    Island__ 391 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:28:38 PM
    Jefferson__ 1488 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:11:58 PM
    King__ 31474 ballots___ 10/25/2006 10:35:59 AM
    Kitsap__ 16702 ballots___ 10/25/2006 8:31:34 PM
    Kittitas__ 969 ballots___ 10/23/2006 6:02:53 PM
    Klickitat__ 388 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:11:58 PM
    Lincoln__ 89 ballots___ 10/24/2006 12:43:04 PM
    Mason__ 2142 ballots___ 10/25/2006 8:31:34 PM
    Okanogan__ 345 ballots___ 10/23/2006 6:02:53 PM
    Pacific__ 1 ballots___ 10/24/2006 11:55:21 AM
    Pierce__ 17758 ballots___ 10/25/2006 8:31:34 PM
    San Juan__ 625 ballots___ 10/25/2006 10:50:18 AM
    Snohomish__ 18071 ballots___ 10/25/2006 9:07:16 PM
    Spokane__ 28937 ballots___ 10/25/2006 8:31:34 PM
    Stevens__ 481 ballots___ 10/24/2006 11:55:21 AM
    Thurston__ 6501 ballots___ 10/25/2006 10:50:18 AM
    Wahkiakum__ 68 ballots___ 10/23/2006 6:02:53 PM
    Whatcom__ 9473 ballots___ 10/25/2006 8:31:34 PM
    Yakima__ 5993 ballots___ 10/23/2006 7:11:58 PM

  24. re 22; “…BIN LAUDIN…”!!!!!!!!! Zoundsssss my good man!!! Sounds like Oprah’s Frenchy French toilet water.

  25. Yeah, I cant wait until Nov 7!!!! How did that song go…. tonight were going to party like the 19 on 911?

  27. Olberman just showed an add for Arlene Specter (R) PA done by Michael J. Fox during his last election supporting him because he supported stem cell research.

    Wonder how many days Limbaugh spent on Mr. Fox being “exploited” then?

    Limbaugh, what an Oxy-moron.

    Hell, this piss off about half of their base, and will probably turn independents to the Democrats 8 to 1. Plus, is this, as Republicans what you want to be talking about? Not to mention, Michael J. Fox is not Ted Kennedy.

  32. This just in. Lush Flimbaugh is trying to talk his newest girlfriend into believing he only FAKES having a limp dick so he can take Viagra. In reality, he has no dick. He’s a girl who is actually Klake’s mom.

  35. After completing a survey of wingnuts vs. Spammers (from Oct 22-25)with registered humans support for klakes posts on HA stands at 4%, while the spammers approval rate was 95.2%. (the other .08% was equally shared between MWS, anomymous, Rufas, Janet Roach, sillygut, left out, and the lowest of LOWS MTR)

  36. Many of us feel important in the shallow lives we live in this country. But there are others in this world that live lives of courage and conviction.

    FAITH UNDER FIRE
    Teen’s testimony of faith unstopped by death
    Missionary into Kim Jong-Il’s kingdom of religious oppression martyred

    Posted: October 26, 2006
    1:00 a.m. Eastern

    © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
    A new report from a ministry with a longtime record of support for members of the persecuted Christian church has described the torture and death, and ultimate surviving ministry, of a Christian in North Korea, one the most restrictive nations in the world regarding people of faith.
    The report from The Voice of the Martyrs tells of four young men who chose pseudonyms – Pencil, Eraser, Pen and Paper Clip – while training for a Christian mission expedition into North Korea.
    They were trained by “Andrew,” a Christian worker in China, for the work that would face them after crossing the Tumen River into North Korea.
    While three were studious in their work, the VOM report said, the young man who chose the name “Pencil” seemed to pay little attention, but all four were dispatched into the kingdom of Kim Jong-Il a short time later.

    Reports from within North Korea several months later came to VOM that three – Eraser, Pen and Paper Clip – had been arrested by North Korean police and beaten, thrown into vehicles and taken away. Reports came back the three were in a concentration camp, but “Pencil,” who had watched the arrests, never saw them again.
    “Pencil,” who feared a similar arrest, lived as a beggar to avoid detection, then returned to Andrew in China.
    “With tears in his eyes, ‘Pencil’ told Andrew the fate of his three friends. He shared how they had been bold witnesses for Christ, and how he had hid in fear as his best friends were taken away,” the report said.
    “What do you want to do with the rest of your life?” Andrew asked, and “Pencil” told him, “I want to learn how to be brave like my friends, and unafraid to share Jesus.”
    “The boy whose mind always seemed to wander was now a young man completely committed to Christ,” the VOM report said. “When ‘Pencil’ was ready to return to North Korea, he looked into the eyes of his friend and mentor, and said, ‘I need nothing more.'”
    He immediately connected with a Christian couple inside North Korea, and together they worked on their ministry. For five months, they planted seeds of faith and prayed, VOM said.
    “One day the three of them were sharing with a small group of beggars and gave them some tracts and a Bible. One of the young beggars went home and proudly showed the Bible to his mother,” VOM’s report, written by P. Todd Nettleton, said.
    The mother promptly grabbed it and marched into a police station, where commanders dispatched officers to arrest the couple and “Pencil.”
    His following interrogation quickly turned to torture, VOM said, as officers demanded to know the source of the Bible, and that “Pencil” recant.
    Instead, he told them of his friends and their fearless witness.
    “There was a time when I couldn’t be like them,” he said. “I was too afraid. But now I can be since Jesus is with me.”
    Beatings and torture, including pulling out his fingernails, followed.
    “If you kill me, someday you will become a Christian,” “Pencil” told the officers.
    Eventually, the officers gave up, ordering him to a labor camp but with instructions that he not be fed. For two months, “Pencil” told the other prisoners and the camp guards, “Jesus is the reason I am able to go on.”
    “Because of his endurance and how he shared the love of Jesus, many in the camp turned to Christ,” the VOM report said. “After two months in the camp, Pencil died. He never saw his 20th birthday. His body was removed from the camp, but the fruit of his short ministry there lived on.”
    VOM is a non-profit, interdenominational ministry working worldwide to help Christians who are persecuted for their faith, and to educate the world about that persecution. Its headquarters are in Bartlesville, Okla., and it has 30 affiliated international offices.
    It was launched by the late Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, who started smuggling Russian Gospels into Russia in 1947, just months before Richard was abducted and imprisoned in Romania where he was tortured for his refusal to recant Christianity.
    He eventually was released in 1964 and the next year he testified about the persecution of Christians before the U.S. Senate’s Internal Security Subcommittee, stripping to the waist to show the deep torture wound scars on his body.
    The group that later was renamed The Voice of the Martyrs was organized in 1967, when his book, “Tortured for Christ,” was released.

  37. Religion is responsible for more death on this planet than weather, natural dissasters and illness combined.

  38. Now why did they do that?

    October 26, 2006
    Rights Group Fires Publisher of Foley E-Mail
    By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.

    Maybe the FBI is finding out new stuff?

  39. NOW THIS IS RICH!

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....es26e.html

    We learn all kinds of interesting tidbits here.

    Pope-A-Dope even ADMITS his own mental health is questionable. While I’ve always known he was batshit crazy, I didn’t know he knew it. It also turns out that the Bar isn’t done with Dickey. They’re still investigating him for FURTHER mistakes. Does anyone really think that this loooooooooser belongs ANYWHERE in a courtroom with the possible exception of Defendant’s chair?

  40. New Gallup numbers (free today 10/16 only?)

    What does the public want this election season? The following are listed in order of approval (approve, disapprove, no opnion):
    – Increase the minimum wage (86 14 1)
    – Pass legislation to provide healthcare insurance to those who do not have it (79 17 4)
    – Allow Americans to buy prescription drugs imported from other countries (72 25 2)
    – Set a time-table for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (63 34 2)
    – Implement all of the anti-terror recommendations made by the 9/11 commission (62 25 13)

    Umm, that’s why Democrats are talking about these things. Republicans are against all of them. Winning strategy, eh?

  41. Rush=Kkklake
    Both are fucking morons, oxy-morons
    Kkklake, why don’t you go take an adult-ed class to learn about spelling and grammar, you illiterate idiot.

  42. 20 klake

    That’s funny. You look at that video and see “terrorists want to behead us.” And you DN’T see that people in other countries are burning the flag because the US invaded an occupied a country that didn’t attack them, then killed half a million people along the way and refuse to leave. It’s funny.

  44. 22 klake

    Does this mean that the new Republican troll trend will be AWAY from pasting in op-eds and TOWARD right-wing YouTude links? I like any change, but it says no more for your powers of argument.

  45. 63 (will change when SPAM is deleted) jaybo

    Don’t you know that the new thing is to link to YouTube? Your cut and paste is so early 2000s.

  46. 65 (wil change when spam is deleted) MWS

    “one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.”

    Wrong. Foley resigned because ABC approached him with e-mails that they had obtained privately (not from a Web site). He resigned three hours before ABC went public with them.

  47. And in honor of our “Dickbrain of the Year” award winner, here’s video of Rush Limbaugh in his studio physically mocking Michael J. Fox’s deblitating, progressive disease. He’s an example for all Republicans who aspire to true sliminess!

    Hey, I linked to video. Does that make me Republican?

  48. Richard Pope is not qualified to beat up my girlfriend.
    (Although he has tried to rough up women in the past)

    Come on Goldy go after this Numbskull.
    I know you like to increase traffic at your site, but King Richard the Poop is looking to be a Judge.

    Can you imagine this idiot making decisions based on his warped idea of Morality.

    That Ashely Bach Article (linked above) sums up the type of Justice to be handed down by this guy. Plus we all know the BS he posts here is full of hate and my morals or the hiway anyway.

    ,i> Since the late 1990s, judges have sanctioned or fined Pope at least a half-dozen times — and thousands of dollars — for missing deadlines, filing frivolous motions and other court delays.

    In one 1997 case, a state appeals court called Pope’s failure to pay for court documents an “egregious violation” of the court’s rules and sanctioned him and his client $1,500. Pope then took almost two years to pay and was fined another $1,500 for taking so long.

    The Municipal League and King County Bar Association have rated Pope “not qualified,” with the bar association taking the unusual step last month of citing him for a history of unprofessional conduct.

    Pope “doesn’t have the qualifications to run as a dogcatcher,” LaSalata says. “Most attorneys who do their job never see a sanction in their entire career.”

    Pope says his mistakes aren’t that unusual in civil and family law, where he’s specialized. He says he “took cases that have been relatively complex and tried to do the best I could and sometimes I’ve missed deadlines.”

    U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman threw Pope off a civil case in January because of missed deadlines. In a long brief in his defense, Pope cited personal problems that included a divorce, his father’s death and the care of his daughter, who has autism.

    My “own mental health situation is terrible,” Pope wrote, adding that he hoped most of it was “situationally derived, rather than long term.”

    Pechman pointed out that Pope still found time to make a failed run for Port of Seattle commissioner around the time he missed a deadline, and she forwarded a complaint about Pope’s behavior to the Washington State Bar Association, which is investigating.

    Pope said this week that he is doing “much, much” better. “I don’t think there’d be any difficulty for me to serve as a judge.”

    A woman whose ex-husband Pope represented in a long-running child support case obtained an anti-harassment order against him for two years in the mid-1990s. Janet Moore said Pope threatened her repeatedly, and once lunged across the table at her and her attorney during a deposition.

    After county prosecutors investigated him for an alleged violation of the order, he sued Moore, County Prosecutor Norm Maleng and then-King County Sheriff James Montgomery for “false and malicious” charges. The lawsuits, in King County Superior and federal court, were eventually dismissed.

    Pope denies that he lunged at Hansen but admits that he behaved poorly during the deposition. “I made a bad mistake nearly 12 years ago there and I deeply regret it.”

    I know your on the Darcy/Goldmark kick, but Judges are tougher to recall (if at all) than congressman.

    He can have a profound impact on many peoples lives, without the oversight.

    STOP THIS IDIOT NOW!

  49. Nothing makes it ILLEGAL for supervisory employees to join a labor organization. They simply don’t have the protections that are afforded under the National Labor Relations Act.

    Comment by Richard Pope — 10/3/06 @ 12:12 pm

    This bonehead wants to be a Judge.

    Please Goldy;
    Remove your endorsement of this perenial candidate, He couldn’t make it as an attorney, now he just wants payback against people who actually took the time to understand the law and took him to the woodshed over and over.
    That is a best case scenario, worse is that he gets into the pocket of the BIAW and just keeps this buying of the courts rolling.

  50. 67, Daddy,

    That isn’t what Americans want – it’s what Americans rate the likelyhood of a Democratic controlled Congress will do.

    Big difference!

    Also, the items listed were picked by the survey = not the respondents.

    Big Difference!

  51. Dickie if you ever came across the table at me in a depo, I’d break your fucking pencil thin neck!

    Man you aren’t just crazy, you’re fucking dangerous. How’d you manage to avoid jail all this time?

    I could tell just by looking at pictures of Dickie he and Mr. Irons had something in common. Problems with women Dickie? Is that the root of your mental illness?

  52. 3. Someone should file a civil rights lawsuit in federal court to throw out the November 2004 governor’s election based on federal constitutional violations of the right to vote and equal protection — due to all these duplicated and ineligible voters in King County. It is not too late for a federal lawsuit.

    Posted by: Richard Pope on October 13, 2005 06:36 PM

    Now here is a guy that comes to decisions based on (U)sound
    Legal Precedent. Just another Shill for the BIAW.
    Don’t see him writing about the Conyers report or The Junior Kennedy article and asking for an election to be tossed out for really aggregious errors.

    I don’t want to be doing hard labor for a speeding ticket.
    Since this guy doesn’t know the law (or doesn’t understand that is what he is supposed to rule by), I am going to have to appeal to get his stupid ruling overturned.

    Come on Repugs…think of the cost to Taxpayers of all the retrials of Popes stupid rulings.

    And you know there will be retrials, any attorney will know that they have at least a 50/50 chance of getting a Dope ruling overturned by a real Judge.

  53. See Goldy;
    He is so confussed that he doesn’t know if he is a democrat or Republican, whichever way the wind or money blows he’ll be there.

    Like Joad from Grapes of Wrath…..but in a it’s about me way.

    Sunday, September 24, 2006

    Judicial Selection: Pope’s fiasco

    SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

    Over more than a decade, Washington voters have 10 times rejected Richard Pope’s attempts at elected office. This year, finally, he may have gotten lucky. And that likely will mean bad luck for his constituents, especially those who would come before him as King County District Court judge.

    The ratings Pope has earned from associations and good-government groups consistently hover in the range of “poor” and “not qualified.”

    He ran as a Republican for state attorney general twice, a Democrat for King County prosecutor and a Republican again for King County assessor.

    In 2004, state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance used “the fiasco of Richard Pope” as evidence of parties’ loss of power to select their own candidates under the blanket primary.

  54. Sorry Stilwell — all divorce files in Washington courts are PUBLIC, unless there is a court order sealing them.

    I don’t think a lobbyist who is the ex-boyfriend of an incumbent U.S. House of Representatives member (as was the situation between Ron Dotzauer and Maria Cantwell on March 18, 1994) should be entitled to having the special privilege of having the ENTIRE case file sealed. This smacks of favoritism and may have been done to cover up politically embarassing revelations from public purview.

    Posted by Richard Pope at 09:34 PM, Sep 12, 2006

    Come on Unless sealed? they were sealed. Judge?

    Come on Poop post your Divorce/Murder papers here if they are open record.

  55. DanW @ 87

    My divorce papers are a public record. If it suits your fancy, you can go down to the King County Court House and copy them for 25 cents per page. Actually, it is really easy — go to the computer terminal, and press the buttons to print things out. Or call my opponent, and maybe you can save the copying charges and a trip downtown. And you can even scan them and post them on your own website, etc. etc.

    There really is nothing exciting in there. Other than the fact that I have custody of my daughter — something the Seattle Times story today chose not to emphasize (and left many readers perhaps with the misleading impression that her mother has custody, since that is the much more common situation in society). I suppose that if Goldy didn’t mention that he has custody of his daughter, many people (including lots of his right-wing critics from time to time) would likewise assume that she was with her mother.

    The only person in my race whose divorce files were sealed was the incumbent, Mary Ann Ottinger (who was eliminated in the primary). She was divorced from drunk driving defense attorney Stephen Hayne back in 1994. Their entire file was sealed — apparently by mutual agreement — on the same day it was filed back in March 1994.

    And I would say that sealing orders are used far too often in civil cases, especially in divorce and family law cases. And the entire court file often gets sealed, when only a few documents (or portions thereof) would be appropriately kept confidential in cases where sealing is called for.

  56. 83

    I’ll give you your second point. The items were selected by the survey.

    But if you followed the link you should have scrolled down further, because those polled were not rating the likelihood of any item being put forward, but instead giving their own APPROVAL of each it IF IT WERE put forward.

    Thus it is indeed what peoiple would want done, of the choices presented, in the order and at the approval percentates I quoted.

    I don’t think it is too far-fatched to say that a good part of the Democratic appeal in this alection is they they ARE willing to pass actual legislation that Republicans would never touch, and that this is reflected to some extent in the current “Democratic wave.”

  58. 80

    I can’t even support Richard for dogcatcher until he resolves his situationally derived mental health issues. Look what happens when can happen when people with situationally derived issues are dogcatchers:

    “Rader had worked since 1991 as a supervisor of the Compliance Department at Park City, a two-employee, multi-functional department in charge of ‘animal control, housing problems, zoning, general permit enforcement and a variety of nuisance cases.’ In this position, neighbors recalled him as sometimes overzealous and extremely strict; one neighbor complained that he euthanized her dog for no reason.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

  59. 91

    I’m not suggesting Richard would euthenize people, like that guy did, but he does need to get his lunging-across-the-table style of conducting depositions under control. It would be unseemly to have a small claims court judge lunge across the bench and bludgeon people with his gavel. Pope didn’t do that, but LaSalata threatened to throw small claims litigants in jail.

  61. Dissed and supported him, that’s what’s confusing.

    I don’t care if he’s a Republican or Democrat. (which not even he is sure what he is.)
    But Unqualified people, no matter how nice should not be sitting making rulings on people who know the law better than them.

    Richard;

    Went to your opponents website;

    http://electfrankvlasalatajudg.....page4.html

    Don’t see anything about the divorce in there, but plenty more about your qualifications, or lack therof.

    Where can we find a copy of the restraining order on you by that women, you jumped at?

  62. Daddy,

    You said that is what Americans want, it isn’t what they want. It’s their priorities amoung those items listed. Americans may have higher priorities of things not listed, such as;

    Repealing the Patriot act, gay marriage, habeas corpus, immigration, fixing social security and/or Medicare, outsourcing jobs, lowering or raising taxes, the federal debt, and finally eavesdropping on (suspected) terrorists and other various hot topics all discussed here daily……….

    Not all Republicans are against those priorities in 67 and not all Democrats agree with passing all of the 9/11 commissions findings. They did pass one of them that most Democrats hate – that is making it illegal to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

  63. Hey, has the 100 Hours Plan been addressed yet in this blog? Should it?

    Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has unveiled a Democratic “first 100 hours” plan to be enacted once Democrats control the House. In an effort to “drain the [Republican] swamp,” Pelosi would:

    Day One: Put new rules in place to “break the link between lobbyists and legislation.”

    Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

    Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds — “I hope with a veto-proof majority,” she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.

    All the days after that: “Pay as you go,” meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.

  64. Personally, I don’t think divorce files should be public record. In the initial stages of a divorce, the filing party (petitioner) routinely files an affidavit asking for a temporary restraining order against the respondent. This is necessary to prevent either side from quickly taking control of marital assets, or reacting angrily to the filing of the divorce. The problem is, the law requires that there be “cause” for the TRO. In other words, you have to allege that you have some reason to assume that the other party would harass, abuse you, or dispose of the marital assets. That leads to affidavits being filed which typically include rather exaggerated claims that the petitioner has been abused, and the respondent is a jerk. After a couple of sets of “dueling affidavits” each containing such charges and counter-charges, the judge in the preliminary hearing typically just imposes mutual restraining orders, establishes temporary custody, sets temporary child support, decides who gets to live in the house pending trial, and then refers the case to trial somewhere down the road.

    I think justice would be better served if those dueling affidavits were dispensed with, and the filing of a divorce action resulted in an automatic and mutual TRO, which can be amended at a hearing later.

    In addition, most of the financial matters which might show up in a divorce trial are nobody’s business but the parties themselves and the court.

    So I would suggest that the public portion of the record should only include the fact that a petition was filed, the dates and names of the parties, and the ultimate disposition (i.e., dissolution granted) and the date.

  65. sgmmac

    Yes, I continue to say that it IS what they want. When 86% of those polled say they would “approve” if Democrats do X, you can take that as they want it done. If they didn’t want it, why would they approve of it being done, and in such numbers?

    I didn’t say, you will note, that these are the TOP things people want. But they want them.

  66. I think I am going to try to track down the ex-Mrs. Pope. I’d love to find out some more dirt on this idiot.

  67. I am Republican – I lie, steal and cheat when I’m not being a hypocrit and family man. Hail Hitler!

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It may be hard to believe from the vile nature of the threads, but yes, we have a commenting policy. Comments containing libel, copyright violations, spam, blatant sock puppetry, and deliberate off-topic trolling are all strictly prohibited, and may be deleted on an entirely arbitrary, sporadic, and selective basis. And repeat offenders may be banned! This is my blog. Life isn’t fair.