Also lost in the feeding frenzy is the plain, indelible fact that Foley initiated his sexually explicit contacts with the exposed young man when he was a minor.
...
The fact that Foley continued his contact with the exposed young man after he turned 18 does not mitigate his original predatory behavior before.--Michelle Malkin

Kinky Friedman for Governor

• "Kinky for Governor, How hard could it be?"
• "My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy"
• "He Ain't Kinky, He's my Governor"
• "Kinky for Governor. Why the Hell Not?"--my personal fave

...[T]o place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.
--Thomas Jefferson, 1825

you've got to do in a way that passes the test—that passes the global test—where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.
--John F. Kerry, 2004

I have a different view.
--George W. Bush, 2004

"I think it would be very prudent for us as a system, a criminal justice system, to delay further executions until we've had an opportunity to re-examine evidence that played a particular role in the conviction of an individual that was sentenced to death," [Houston Police Chief Harold] Hurtt said.

As all 6 of my readers know, I have not only written against gay marriage, but have also been a proponent of changing marriage back to its traditional meaning --- abduction of a woman and seizure of her family's property.

When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could by pouring their derision upon anything we did and exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids, but in the town it was well known when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.

Their actions have created confusion on an issue that requires clarity. On a matter of such importance, the voice of the people must be heard. Activist courts have left the people with one recourse.

— George W. Bush, being a sanctimonious prig on gay marriage.

Then let my voice by clearly heard: this member of the American people supports the right of gay Americans to legally marry. This member of the American people does not support fiddling with the Constitution to enshrine anti-gay bigotry in it. This member of the American people wishes the President would shut up about what he thinks we want—because in many cases, he’s flat-out wrong.

Anything the White House did with those CIA analyses, any fisticuffs between the Veep's office and the CIA, anything stovepiped through Doug Feith's operation at the Pentagon, anything that made its way from Chalabi's mumbo-jumbocrats to the the president's speechwriters -- that's all beyond their brief.

I didn't doctor this screenshot. This is exactly what showed up in my browser window when I went back to check the election results a few minutes ago. I knew it didn't make sense, but just the fact that it was there gave me that "Dewey Defeats Truman" feeling.

Howard Dean Solitaire by Freeverse Software is a demo project advertising their "corporate premium" version of Burning Monkey Solitaire. It's basically a skinned solitaire game with Dean images. They'll skin whatever you want and give you 100-10000 copies for you to give away at your corporate barbeque or trade show

I don't know if it's more amusing to me that there's a Dean solitaire game or that the software company is using Dean to promote their corporate premium.

I mean, the main other reason, though, is I kind of felt let down by the outcome of the 2000 election.  I very much felt that Nader, at the end of that, should have told the Green Party members to vote for Gore and thrown his support behind Gore. Even though I didn’t really like Gore, I guess I didn’t know how terrible Bush would have been and I’m willing to compromise a little more this time and, you know, I recognize that getting somebody other than Bush elected is key and Dean can win.  That’s why I support Dean.

Hello, I'm calling for the Republican Party, do you have any money to spend to help make America a better place for her corporate overlords?

Love to help the cause, buddy, but I just lost my job when they opened that new overseas call center.

GOP Chairwoman Susan Weddington said the Democrats should pay the $2 million tab even though a Republican governor called the session specifically to increase Republican influence in Congress.

"You're not going to see senators brought back in handcuffs as long as I am lieutenant governor," Dewhurst said.

• Fear and aggression
• Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Need for cognitive closure
• Terror management

At 9:39 a.m. on May 14, the DPS ordered all records of the search to be destroyed. DPS claims the records were destroyed because the investigation was over, but the House did not drop the order to arrest the wayward members until 11:25 a.m. --The Houston Chronicle

"I'm not giving up," DeLay said. "And I will not be intimidated. This is not over yet."

[F]ederal officials say the police in Texas "have a lot of explaining to do."

They are, at long last, the perfect unpoliticians -- they don't compromise, they don't deal, they don't look for the middle way, they don't give a damn about accommodating anybody else. Because they believe they're right. And they won't go out for a beer after work. They think it's them against evil. And everybody who ain't them is evil. These are Shiite Republicans.

Since all of y'all in the North think Texas is eternally screwed up, I'm not going to try to defend this lunacy (although it has causes), I'm just warning you: This is about to happen everywhere. A good country song says, "Lubbock on Everythang." Make it bigger, expand that. "Texas on Everythang." The whole country is being turned into the state whose proudest boast is that sometimes we're ahead of Mississippi.

When our governor, Rick "Goodhair" Perry (that's a head of hair every Texan can be proud of, regardless of party), asked New Mexico to arrest any escapees lurking there, the state's attorney general, Patricia Madrid, said, "I have put out an all-points bulletin for law enforcement to be on the lookout for politicians in favor of health care and against tax cuts for the wealthy."

• I believe that's Garnet Coleman (Joker, D-Houston) on the left
• I'm pretty sure that's Jim Dunnam (2H, D-Waco) on the right
• Oak Farms Milk tastes sorta chalky, especially the reduced fat variety

People keep talking about me baby
Say I'm doing you wrong, doing you wrong

The Full Deck

In December 1840 the Illinois Democrats wanted to require the bank to make payments in gold or silver instead of paper. The bank was authorized to continue its suspension of specie payment through the end of the year. Lincoln wanted desperately to avoid this outcome, so he bolted for the door and instructed his fellow Whigs to follow him. Without a quorum the legislature could not vote to adjourn, and the suspension of specie payment would continue. But the door was locked and guarded, so Lincoln literally jumped out of the first-floor window, followed by his lemming-like Whig followers. The Democrats ridiculed him as "Lincoln and his flying brethren," and his stunt failed anyway.

A Declaration in Defense of Self-Determination [...] In our democracy, power rests with the people. The founding documents of our nation declare the self-evidence of this natural law. Government is only as strong as the people who choose their representatives through elections, through their consent granting government its legitimacy. [...] Issued May 13, 2003 at Ardmore, Oklahoma

[I]f he [King Robert of Scotland, aka Robert the Bruce] should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom ? for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

Here are a few links:
• current and proposed redistricting maps
.
• Letter and declaration from Dem leader Jim Dunnam to Speaker Craddick

Believe me, stopping the legislature from functioning at this point is high public service.

"This is sheer stupidity," Rep. Pat Haggerty, R-El Paso, said of the lockdown. He wanted to be liberated. [...] Haggerty acknowledged that he would've been better off with his Democrat colleagues than being placed under a form of House arrest. "When this goes down in history (the Democrats) will be heroes, and we'll be a bunch of schmucks," Haggerty said.

"They are spoiling the day for school children who are making a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the state Capitol with their class, and would like be recognized by their hometown lawmaker." -- House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland.

"No one's wife, liberty, or property are safe when the legislature was in session."

"Texas should understand that since ski season is over, the Santa Fe Opera has not begun and President Bush was just in town, I don't think they are in Santa Fe now. Nevertheless, I have put out an all-points bulletin for law enforcement to be on the look out for politicians in favor of health care for the needy and against tax cuts for the wealthy."

On another list, Savok wrote:
[W]hy are the left almost supporting someone who uses chemical weapons on his own people and destroys entire ecological systems pretty much leaving the people there for dead because they piss him off?

World braces as deadline looms
Terror alert level raised; March Madness may be delayed

Those who would trade essential liberties for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security." -Benjamin Franklin

God's Judgement on America for Murdering the Innocent

God's Judgement on America for Tolerating Sodomy

GOD will not Bless a Wicked Nation

Nazareth News (Nazareth, FL) November 27th Edition, 1 B.C.
Serving Greater Nazareth since 23 B.C. Statutorily Required Notice of Intent to Surrender a Child for Adoption I. Mary of Nazareth, intend to put up my child, whom I expect to bear in late December, for adoption at the Bethlehem Adoption Center. As required by Florida low, I am posting this notice because I have exhausted all efforts to locate the father. I am 5'2" tall, approximately 140 lbs and have dark hair and an olive complexion. In early March, 1 B.C., I met someone calling himself "The Holy Spirit". He came over me several times in Temple and several times in my parents own home. If The Holy Spirit, or whatever his real name is, wishes to contest my decision to give up our child for adoption, he should contact Joseph of the house and lineage of David, Nazareth, Florida.

Oh, this is going to be one fabulous piece of legislation, all right. Personally, I can hardly wait for it to be passed into law. I'll be sure to thank Hillary Rosen when I'm legally breaking in to the RIAA network, searching for illicit copies of my articles.

Mr. Armey's bill also would create a "privacy officer" in the Homeland Security Department, which he said was the first ever established by law in a Cabinet agency. Mr. Armey said this person would "ensure technology research and new regulations from the department respect the civil liberties our citizens enjoy."

We Northern¹ liberal pointy-heads just have to suck it up on certain things, such as “In God We Trust” in our courtrooms and on our money, for what is mostly a good deal for us (generally, constitutionally protected personal freedoms).

[T]he sole basis for the public outcry against the Pledge ruling is that it is suppresses an expression of a passionate and literal belief in a living, breathing, all-powerful deity.  The anger is not that Mr. Newdow has made much out of something trivial or meaningless, but that he has refused to acknowledge the truth of a very important belief that the majority of Americans hold dear.

God \God\ (g[o^]d),unk? [org: undefined by U.S. Congress 2002] 1. A generic metaphor for nothing in particular. 2. A solemn ceremonial word devoid of any meaning. 3. A reference to zero or more things about which nothing is known.

Could a Catholic clergyman ever hope to be appointed a [Congressional] Chaplain! To say that his religious principles are obnoxious or that his sect is small, is to lift the evil at once and exhibit in its naked deformity the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor. --From James Madison Detached Memoranda (bef 1832)

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I made a binding promise of my fidelity to the symbol and the government it stood for, a government subordinate to God, which I believe is indivisible and should provide liberty and justice for all.

June 26, 2002, 2:28PM The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag© Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

• It can't get worse that Gramm
• Cornyn has a better track record than most
• Ron Kirk also looks reasonable.

Michael - based on an analysis of the bill, I don't think John Cornyn would support the measure. While the desire to protect intellectual property is important, this bill could strangle innovation and not improve the protection of intellectual property as intended. Matt Winslow John Cornyn for Senate

"...not appropriate to have a judge with pro-pornography views on the bench.

Justice Fisher showed that he was not capable of judging crimes, which degraded women, such as sexual abuse and rape..."

• Fake Science and Pornography--by Avedon Carol, of Feminists Against Censorship
• The Meese Commision had a"...mandate to overturn the 1970 Presidential Commission on Pornography's finding that there is no evidence of a link between sexually explicit materials and delinquent or criminal behavior"--The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile Meese Commission Report
  --by Pat Calfia

• LIE: "How do people become pedophiles? Usually, pornography walks you down that path until you get to the place where you've seen everything that a man and a woman can do together, and then you make that little jump over to perversions." --JAMES DOBSON, FOCUS ON THE FAMILY FACT: "The FBI has no evidence that pornography causes crimes. Pedophilia has absolutely nothing to do with adult pornography." --FBI AGENT KEN LANNING

  from The Sex Lies of the Religious Right
• "Even the pro-censorship Meese Commission Report admitted that the data connecting pornography to violence was unreliable." A FEMINIST OVERVIEW OF PORNOGRAPHY, ENDING IN A DEFENSE THEREOF by Wendy McElroy

The idea was that a Sheik in an Arab country was concerned about the fact that there weren't enough marriageable women around so that every man could fulfill his spiritual duty to have more than one wife. So he declared that in his kingdom every family would be permitted to have no more than one boy. After their first boy was born, they would be required to stop having children. Images of families with huge numbers of daughters and only one son danced in his head. Gardner's comment was that in fact the result of this would be a preponderance of males. You start with the fact that every birth is a 50:50 toss, and the most common family configuration, about half, would be a single male child. Then you have a quarter of them with one girl and one boy, a quarter with two girls and one boy, an eighth with three girls and one boy, and so on. In order for the numbers of boys and girls to come back into equality it was necessary to take the series to infinity. So far from this policy providing more women to marry, it would instead cause a shortage. ...[H]is analysis is faulty anyway, because in fact each birth would be a separate event governed by the laws of probability, because the sex of any child is not affected by how many siblings have already been born into that family. In reality, such a policy would have no effect at all on the sex mix. But it was an interesting idea: a policy which would have the exact opposite effect that was planned. We see those around us every day.