Ugly Is More Than A Four-Letter Word – It’s All The Rage
It is all the rage . And some of you are part of it. More on that later. Let’s begin with….
Congressman Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Kanye West have highlighted a week of American rage.
It began with Congressman Wilson, who by the way, has raised 1.5 million dollars in campaign funds since his outburst that interrupted the President’s speech to Congress on health care. Is there something in the water in South Carolina? Wilson disgraced his state with the weird outburst. But wait a second! This is also the state of Mark Sanford, confessed adulterer who refuses to leave office after constantly embarrassing his wife and family, and probably misusing state funds.
Congressman Wilson was rebuked by Congress. But egotistical politicians never learn. Believe me, he’ll screw it up again. I guarantee it.
Serena Williams threatened to shove a tennis ball down the throat of a judge who declared that her feet were in the wrong place when she made a serve. The match was ended but Ms. Williams raged on. She still, at this moment, has not properly apologized. She later said she didn’t threaten to kill the judge, but last I heard shoving a ball in the mouth of another human being can kill them. She was fined $10.000. People forget that a profane and stupid John McEnroe set such a bad example so many years ago that thousands of kids emulated his ugly act. Serena Williams carries on the McEnroe tradition.
Federer was pretty bad, but it was uncharacteristic. There is still no excuse. But Kanye West’s act on the video awards ceremony was just plain ugly.
Who’s to blame?
We are. We put up with the celebrity thugs who adorn out TV screens and award their behaviors with even more exposure and adoration. We make excuses for them. We sometimes copy them to perfection.
Remember the driver who is tailing your car with rage. The man in line at a store who angrily shoves his way in front. The bullies? These are all bullies and we have to fight hard not to become like them.
Hate. Ugliness. Unrepentant anger. Thank goodness so many of you are good and decent people. But for a vocal part of the population, whether it’s the drunken maniac outside a football game, or the hate-filled homophobic, or the 12 year old tennis player with the foul mouth, or the bigoted church-going antagonist who professes to love all, but hates many, this behavior in America is all the rage.
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I have no doubt that it is the intent of MANY broadcasters to create the behavior you condemn.
The Hate filled antagonists like Beck, Hannity, O’riely, Dobbs, etc. do more to create this ugliness by insinuations, outright lies, or unresearched materials used to attack innocent people.
What follows is in defense (for now) of ACORN and how the actor entrappers were duped:
Attack Videographer Caught in
Manipulation and Lies
(San Bernardino, CA) –Today the videographer James O’Keefe’s hidden camera “interview” with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke, airing repeatedly on Fox “News”, including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com, has been caught out
in an obvious set of lies and manipulations. When the actors approached Ms. Kaelke with their provocative costuming and outlandish
scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false
scenarios.
“They were not believable”, said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors. “Somewhat entertaining, but they weren’t even good actors. I didn’t know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen Colbert does – saying the most outrageous things with a straight face.” While her sense of
humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario after false scenario and the videographer ate them up.
For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp, she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true) and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and living near Barstow, CA. However, this is taken as the gospel truth, not just in the film itself, but also by several
“news” personalities, indicating that no journalistic standards were applied to making the video or vetting it for broadcast.
Further, as the actors repeatedly noted how nice she was being, Ms Kaelke responded, also repeatedly, that her “niceness” was just her, not ACORN. “My supervisor would shoot this
down like faster than a bat out of hell.”
When the actors talked about bringing 12-13 year olds in from another country, supposedly because they needed a lot of money fast for a political campaign, Ms. Kaelke said, “You are going to need it for a lawyer!”
These exchanges, which do not appear in the edited film put on BigGovernment.com, call into question the journalistic standards of the film and of any purported news organization
that chooses to run them.
Ms. Kaelke, who did not know she was being filmed, is appalled that her defensive attempts to deal with a troubling experience have been manipulated into an attack on her work
helping low- and moderate-income families fight the foreclosure crisis, work for needed health care reform, and face the economic crisis in San Bernardino. www,acorn.com
Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
Larry, you continue to embarrass yourself monumentally. First this topic was so predictable that your bloggers could have written it and most likely done a much better job.
Don’t think we missed your throw away line: “This is also the state of Mark Sanford, confessed adulterer who refuses to leave office after constantly embarrassing his wife and family, and probably misusing state funds.” And probably misusing state funds? Never let facts get in the way of taking a shot at Republicans, Larry. You are truly unbelievable! Unbelievable! You are as looney as this ‘John Fisher’ character who is likely Larry Kane in drag.
You are probably asking yourself the question: if you hate this website so much, why are you still here? Very good question. One I ask myself weekly when I check in for your next topic. Each week gets weaker than the previous post.
Get a surrogate, Larry, if this is too tough a task for you!
I don’t remember seeing that type of shot when John Edwards embarrassed his wife. Or Elliott Spitzer. Or any Dem for that matter. Do you think Larry the Liberal may be biased? Hmmmmmm…
It is not their acts, for the most part, it is their hypocrisy:
Alan David Berlin, 40, a longtime staffer for a Republican state
lawmaker, was charged on May 29, 2009 with a first degree felony for
unlawful contact with a minor. He is also charged with criminal
attempted sexual exploitation of children, criminal solicitation to
commit sexual abuse of children, all second-degree felonies, and other
offenses. authorities say Berlin suggested dressing up in animal
costumes during online sex chats with a 15-year-old boy. During a
search, agents found wolf- and cat-type costumes in his home.
Republican sex offender & former Regent University law school
assistant dean Stephen L. McPherson, who was indicted June 7, 2008 on
13 felony sexual assault charges involving two girls, has entered a
guilty plea to two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of object
sexual penetration. He is set to be sentenced May 22. There was no
agreement on a potential sentence, except that prosecutors will
recommend a cap of 18 years and six months.
Republican sex offender and former North Country assemblyman and
current state Parole Board member, George “Chris” Ortloff, 61, was
arrested on Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 on federal charges that he used the
Internet to solicit sex with minors. He was arrested following a sting
operation at a Colonie motel and had allegedly arranged for a date
with a minor he met on the Internet. ” The New York Post reports that
he had child pornography and sex paraphernalia in his possession when
he was arrested. State Police reportedly searched Ortloff”’s home in
Plattsburgh and a computer had been seized from his Lake Placid real
estate office, officials said. Ortloff, married with two sons, retired
from the Assembly in 2006 having represented the 110 th District. ”
He was appointed to the part-time position on the Parole Board, a six
year term which expires in 2012, a position paying him $102,000 a
year.
Republican sex offender & Missouri State Rep. Scott Muschany, (R)-
Frontenac, was indicted today, Aug 6, 2008, in connection with a
reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after
this year’s Legislative session ended. The alleged victim is the
daughter of a state employee. The girl’s mother and Muschany, a
married father of 2 children, were romantically involved, the woman
said. (Aren’t “Family Values” a wonderful thing?) In a morbid twist of
irony, Muschany was a co-sponsor of legislation that toughened sex
offender laws in 2006. According to his legislative biography,
Muschany and his wife were licensed as foster parents with the
Division of Family Services.
Republican sex offender & longtime stalwart Republican operative Peter
Hong was arrested July 23, 2008 for solicitation of prostitution.
Police spokesman Peter Panos said that the arrest came during the
first day of a two-day sting operation during which “johns” and
prostitutes responded to ads placed on the Internet and in print.
Thirty-five people were arrested Wednesday and Thursday, Panos said
today.
Republican sex offender & candidate for Mineral County (W.Va.)
Commission Wilton Frederick Bland, 30, of Bayberry Place, was arrested
March 23, 2007, after police received a complaint concerning a
juvenile boy who said Bland had wanted him to appear nude on the
Internet. Bland charged last year with 136 counts related to sexually
based crimes against children has been sentenced to a possible total
of 85 years after pleading guilty in both Grant and Mineral counties.
was charged at the time with 73 counts of possession of child
pornography, 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for
allegedly having sex with a child under age 11, nine counts of use of
obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor, seven counts of display
of obscene matter to a minor and two counts of employing a minor to do
sexually explicit conduct, according to the West Virginia State
Police.
Republican Delegate Robert McKee entered a guilty plea of possessing
child porn on September 6, 2008. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison
on November 21, 2008. McKee’s journals document that he simultaneously
printed images of child pornography from the Internet and printed
stories describing sexual acts between young boys and other young boys
or adult men. Someone from McKee’s home called the Washington County
Sheriff’s Department to tip off authorities and provided them with
printed images from a computer.
Republican sex offender & Department of Children & Families press
secretary Al Zimmerman, 40, was arrested Friday, Feb 1, 2008 and
charged with eight felony charges of using a child in a sexual
performance. According to an arrest report, Zimmerman offered two
teens money in exchange for photographing them in sexual acts. The
victims were ages 16 and 17 at the time of the crime, and at least one
may have been in the care of DCF at one point, according to the
report. Authorities believe some of the images date back to December
2005, the arrest report showed. Zimmerman is suspected of taking
photos as recently as Friday, the report showed.
The Republican Mayor, who is also the Pastor of the Temple Lot Church
in Collins Missouri, a town in St. Clair County, is accused of trying
to convince someone whom he thought was a teenage girl to meet him for
sex. Diamond police say Allen D Kauffman is charged in Newton County
with four counts of enticement of a child after an online
investigation that began in mid-November.
Diamond Police Detective Jim Murray says he posed as a 13-year-old
girl named Cindy and was approached by a man who used the screen name
duke dukeadk on Nov. 15 about noon in an online chat room.
Murray says Kauffman discussed meeting her to take nude photos and to
have sex. Over the course of seven conversations during the past two
months, transcripts show each chat was sexually graphic. Murray say
Kauffman recognized the girl’s age, and even showed some hesitation,
teasing the girl about whether she could be a cop.
Police say Kauffman repeatedly asked the girl to use a webcam, and
didn’t wait long to use his. The detective saved some photos from a
webcam on Kauffman’s computer in his home in Collins.
Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman, 37, of Allouez, Wisconsin
was charged last month with two counts of child enticement, two counts
of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of
exposing himself to a child for allegedly fondling a 16-year-old Ethan
House runaway and providing the boy with beer and marijuana late last
year.
Republican Homeland Security deputy press secretary Brian J. Doyle ,
55, was arrested Tuesday night, April 4, 2006 and charged with trying
to “seduce” a 14-year-old Polk County girl with graphic talk over the
Internet. On March 12, Doyle contacted a 14-year-old girl whose
profile was posted on an AOL Web site, according to the Sheriff’s
Office release. Initially, detectives thought Doyle was posing as
someone working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But they
soon learned otherwise when he sent a picture to the girl over the
Internet wearing an official “DHS tag”, Judd said.
Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls under
the age of 16.
Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of
fondling underage girls.
Republican Township Supervisor Robert Holland stepped down amid
accusations that he sexually assaulted a 92-year-old nursing home
resident in 2006. Holland, a 77-year-old Republican, pleaded guilty to
aggravated indecent assault and related charges and is now serving a
two- to four-year prison sentence in Bucks County.
Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having
sex with a 14-year old boy.
Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to
police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex
from 13-year old girls.
Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in
jail for molesting two boys — ages ten and 12 — during a six-year
period.
Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress
after “sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a
16-year old boy.
Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington
Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old
girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges
of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won
elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-
year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with
a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of
an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a
14-year-old girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded
guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child
molester.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in
federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.
Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex
from two 15-year old girls.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years
in prison.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years
in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a
teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted
child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church
president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on
an 11-year old girl he murdered.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to
anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three
years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond
had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the
2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a
sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to
six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom
appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the
White House during the 1980s.
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having
sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child
porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex
crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to
attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years
later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working
as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell
admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter, Susan
Smith, who later drowned her 2 children by strapping them in their car
seats and plunging them into a lake in South Carolina and blamed it on
a black man. Beverly Russell admitted abusing Smith when she was 15
and continuing an incestuous relationship with her until shortly
before she drowned her children in John D. Long Lake.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child
pornography on his home computer.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged
with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was
taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual
activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug
LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex
with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the
allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-
year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his
genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to
40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted
to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of
raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two
years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year
old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first
degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony
counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16
(i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of
molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting
a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual
assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two
daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted
of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to
unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to
raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months
in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography
was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin
Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex
from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good
military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having
sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage
girls.
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas
Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six
years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp.
Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his
computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A.
Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62,
who is married with grown
children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that
over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a
large number of young women.
Larry, I suggested earlier this evening on
the previous string that its about time you
cut off John Fisher, he’s vanalizing your
blog space. You are not one to be bullied.
Please man up on this and cut Fisher off
from monopolizing and spaming your blog
with a bunch of nonsense and pompous self
aggrandizement.
Just responding!!!=:) For the most part to YOUR prejudices!!!=:)
I am Hal9000 the propaganda machine.
I hate all Republicans.
I hate all Catholics.
I hate the criminal state of Israel.
Kill babies and terminate healthcare for eniors.
It’s the American way in Barack’s America.
I am following the lead of my hero President Obama.
Bipartisan leadership=;)
Bipartisan leadership=;)
Bipartisan leadership=;)
Bipartisan leadership=;)
Which way are you going, which side will you be on?
Will you stand and watch while all the seeds of hate are sown?
Will you stand with those who say, “Let His will be done,”
With one hand on the Bible
One hand on the gun
One hand on the Bible
And one hand on the gun?
Which way are you looking, is it hard to see?
Do you say what’s wrong for him is not wrong for me?
You walk the streets of righteousness, but you refuse to understand:
You say you love the baby
Then you crucify the man
You say you love the baby
Then you crucify the man
Every day things are changing, words once honored turned to lies.
People wondering . . . can you blame them?
It’s too far to run, and too late to hide.
So now you’ve turned your back on all the things that you used to preach:
Now it’s let him live in freedom if he lives like me.
Well your light has changed, confusion reigns, what have you become?
All your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns
Your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns
John Fisher cuts and pastes with the alacrity
of a 12 year old, very impressive for a man
of 80 who recently earned his GED and is now
taking computer courses at community college.
How childish, abott!!! For cryin’ out loud – GROW UP!!!
Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
Let’s get TACOS!
Waiting for the 7:01. As I sit here quietly on the bench surrounded by secret service agents I’m thinking how lame Larry’s latest website subject is. The same feature that has been on every network news all week. On Entertainment Tonight and all the other dumbshit icon shows. Same angle. Same take. He is really getting lazy. No one will confuse LK as with a journalist anymore. Not even a reporter. More like a teleprompter reader. I guess that’s what is trendy these days – teleprompter reading. Like Barack. No substance just style.
Larry even you the liberal zealot must be growing weary of ‘John Fisher’ the 80 year old born again liberal with cut n’ paste talents extraordinaire and more free time than any non-retired person should have. His rantings must embarrass even you(and based on your recent offerings you are not easily embarrassed). What to do LK? What to do?
Biden/Palin in 2012! We’ll fix the economy, job and home situations in 6 months!
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I am Hal9000 the propaganda machine.
I hate everyone.
I distort the truth.
I love President Obama.
In the interest of fairness, transparency and bipartisan politics:
William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater – Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate – Filegate – Vince Fostergate – Whitewater Billing Recordsgate – Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate – Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate – Lippogate – Chinagate – The Lewinsky Affair – Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate – Kathleen Willeygate – Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate – Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate – Jaunita Broaddrick Gate – Lootergate – Pardongate
Edward Moore Kennedy – Democrat – U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Barney Frank – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.
DNC – The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.
Sandy Berger – Democrat – National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.
Robert Torricelli – Democrat – Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.
James McGreevey – Democrat – New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Jesse Jackson – Democrat – Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.
Gary Condit – Democrat – US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..
Eliot Spitzer- Democrat – New York governor – resigned from office after being tied to a prostitution ring.
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.
Daniel David Rostenkowski – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.
Melvin Jay Reynolds – Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.
Wayne Bryant – Democrat NJ state senator- was convicted was found guilty on all 12 counts against him including bribery and pension fraud.
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.
George Rogers – Democrat – Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.
Don Siegelman – Democrat Governor Alabama – indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.
John Murtha, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Otto Kerner – Democrat governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 was jailed after the manager of two horse-racing tracks admitted to bribing the then- governor; charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in 1973.
Dan Walker – Democrat governor of Illinois from1973 to 1977 served less than two years of a seven-year sentence for receiving improper loans a decade after leaving office.
Gerry Eastman Studds – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.
Hiram Monserrate- Queens City Councilman and state Senator-elect – who has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence – was arrested for breaking a glass over his girlfriend’s face. Monserrate, 41, a former cop, won election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November 2008.
James C. Green – Democrat – North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.
Frederick Richmond – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer – pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also – charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee – pleaded guilty.
Raymond Lederer – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.
Frank Thompson, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison
Michael Joseph Myers – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.
John Michael Murphy – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
John Wilson Jenrette, Jr – Democrat – U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison
Neil Goldschmidt – Democrat – Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.
Alcee Lamar Hastings – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.
Marion Barry – Democrat – mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.
Mario Biaggi – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.
Lee Alexander – Democrat – Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.
Bill Campbell – Democrat – Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.
Frank Ballance – Democrat – Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.
Hazel O’Leary – Democrat – Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration – O’leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.
Lafayette Thomas – Democrat – Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.
Mary Rose Oakar – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.
David Giles – Democrat – candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.
Gary Siplin – Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy.
Edward Mezvinsky – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.
Lena Swanson – Democrat – Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.
Abraham J. Hirschfeld – Democrat – candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.
Henry Cisneros – Democrat – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.
James A. Traficant Jr. – Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.
John Doug Hays – Democrat – member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.
Henry J. Cianfrani – Democrat – Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.
David Hall – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.
John A. Celona – Democrat – A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine
Allan Turner Howe – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Jerry Cosentino – Democrat – Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud – fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.
Joseph Waggonner Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute
Albert G. Bustamante – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.
Lawrence Jack Smith – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.
David Lee Walters – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.
James Guy Tucker, Jr. – Democrat – Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.
Walter Rayford Tucker – Democrat – Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.
William McCuen – Democrat – Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Walter Fauntroy – Democrat – Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. – Democrat – Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.
Joseph Kolter – Democrat – member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.
Webster Hubbell – Democrat – Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges – sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Nicholas Mavroules – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.
Carl Christopher Perkins – Democrat – Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Richard Hanna – Democrat – U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the “Koreagate” influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.
Angelo Errichetti – Democrat – New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.
Daniel Baugh Brewster – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.
Thomas Joseph Dodd – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. – Democrat – Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.
Jerry Springer – Democrat – Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.
Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. – Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.
Daniel Flood – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.
Otto Kerner, Jr – Democrat – Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.
George Crockett, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Cornelius Edward Gallagher – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury
Mark B. Jimenez – Democrat fundraiser – sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.
Bobby Lee Rush – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.
Bolley ”Bo” Johnson – Democrat – Former Florida House Speaker – received a two-year term for tax evasion.
Roger L. Green – Democrat – Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.
Gloria Davis – Democrat – Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.
Vincent Foster – Democrat – Clinton Legal Advisor murdered because he knew too much by the Clintons. RIP
bipartisan politics=;)
bipartisan politics=;)
bipartisan politics=;)
bipartisan politics=;)
Larry, you forgot the bigoted Mosque and
Synogoue goers who spew hate and prejudice,
or did you mean to just single out Christians?
Being against haters like Van Jones would be
A brave thing, but Larry went with the safe
ones, even Obama called Kanye West a jackass.
Welcome to Jenna Bush on the Today Show, she
will be a great correspondent. She has done much
to help and educate AIDs infected children
in Jamaica. She is a role model for the best
of what young woman of privalege can do, the
Kennedy grandchildren should pay attention.
What’s your point, Fisher impostor???? My original post reflected upon sexual deviates who are hypocrites!!!
I didn’t spend much time on your list of Democrat felons. I don’t doubt that SOME of your claims can be substantiated BUT I would likly find defenses for many of them.
What takes from the credibility of your post is the last line which falsely claims (IS A LIE WHICH IS HABITUAL WITH DEMENTED REPUBLICANS) that Vince Foster was murdered!!!! You can’t substantiate that claim. Therefor, little credance can be given to the totality of your effort!
I am Hal9000 the propaganda machine.
I spew lies and half truths.
I have so much hate in my heart that I purposely neglect the truth.
I know Vince Foster was offed by William Jefferson Clinton’s operatives but WJC was my first true love before President Obama.
I am undeterred by the truth.
I continue to post in the belief that the more you read this crap the more you will believe it.
I am delusional.
I am a grouchy old man.
(I am actually a 26 year old Penn coed named Jenny Trout please rescue me from this job as a liberal propaganda repeater)
Bipartisan politics=;)
Bipartisan politics=;)
Bipartisan politics=;)
Bipartisan politics=;)
Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
Let’s get CAKE!
larry,you forgot alycia lane,queen of the petulant outburst.
it’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with materiel products.the mesage is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold:”i am the center of the universe!”after all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe,is it any wonder,then,that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way ?
lets get silly.
Is Dobbs on his way out???
http://www.dropdobbs.com/
I am Hal9000 the propaganda machine.
I hate everyone.
I particularly hate fetuses and dogs.
I also particularly despise Mr Cut and Paste Man.
He is tedious and annoying.
Cut but don’t paste=80
Cut but don’t paste=80
Cut but don’t paste=80
Cut but don’t paste=80
Groovy. Now the sock puppeters are after me again. Larry, this is a joke.
It’s not a joke, Leo!!! It’s buffoonery by a buffoon!!!
Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
I like CAKE!
I am Hal9000 the propaganda machine.
I hate everyone and everything except the Obamas.
They are the sophisticated elitest I yearn to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KsEuVMw1w&feature=related
We maybe not Michelle.
Be seen but not heard=;0
Be seen but not heard=;0
Be seen but not heard=;0
Be seen but not heard=;0
-: I watched the Malkin video you provided!!! The part I remember is where she spoke of “CRAZY RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVES”. I really got a BIG laughout of that one, inasmuchas she is one of the craziest of them all!!!!-:) It’s obvious, too, that she has no straight answers but moves from topic to topic, using non-sequiturs to advance her nefarious purposes. She really is a poor specimen of a human being who ranks right up there with other comedians like limpbowels and other right wing fruitcakes!!-:)
I may not be here tomorrow – SO – just in case:
L’Shana Tova u’Metuka
A peaceful, just and sweet New Year – for everyone. May you and your loved ones be written in the book of life, and may our efforts to end the occupation and bring about justice for all bear fruit in the coming year!!!=:)
The Book of Life is where Christians enter the
names of children who have died unborn, either
through miscarriage, abortion, accidents, or
the murder of the mother.
You can enter names, pray, and or make a donation
at:
http://www.innocents.com
Choose life!
Happy New Year Larry!
If you want to engage in positive discourse, then my blog is the place.
Here I will constantly harp on problems and refuse to come up with solutions.
Waiting for the 7:01. ‘John Fisher’ there is a certain finality in your last post. Hope everything is okay. We don’t like your political philosophy or ranting but we wish you the best healthwise.
What was the topic of discussion here anyway?
I see where the State is going to bailout Philly. The city pulled the oldest stunt in the books – threatening to cut vital services of police and firefighters. Were I in the state congress I would call their bluff. There are thousands of useless hack city employees collecting a paycheck because their relative was in a position to hire them. They would not even be missed. This tired ploy of claiming that they have cut to the bone and now vital services are going to have to be slashed is ludicrous. I wish the PA congress had the stones that we are showing on this healthcare plan. We’re ramming it home despite the fact that most Americans are against it because we can!
There are plenty of people to cut before you even start to think about police, firemen or trash collectors. Don’t fall for this nonsense.
Biden/Palin in 2012! We may be backwoods but we are streetsmart!
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Yo Will – In west Scranton born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said ‘You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Wilmington’
That’s how I roll.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Streetsmart but fail’in to use rhythm, yo!
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Joe, I spend a great deal of time on the road. Occasionally, I have a problem, in hotels, when trying to link to the net. Often, I’m gone for several days!!-:)
BTW, Joe I subscribe to MANY newspapers. This a.m. I ran across an article in the Austin “Statesman” which I thought might interest you, the fake Fisher, and other impostors:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/09/18/0918comments.html
What do you think about it??-:)
Interesting. Very interesting. That is limited to Austin and people impersonating policemen. I may have to disguise my name to protect the innocent. Thanks for the heads up.
This website is no holds barred.
Biden/Palin in 2012! That date can come soon enough!
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Letter received from Mayor Nutter:
Dear Friend,
I have great news! Yesterday afternoon the Pennsylvania State Senate passed House Bill 1828, which enables Philadelphia to increase revenue, balance our budget and avoid the disastrous cuts that would have resulted from Plan C. Governor Rendell has said he will sign the bill into law.
This is a huge win for the citizens of Philadelphia, and I want to thank each of you who took the time to contact your State Senators and encourage them to pass this bill. You made your voices heard in Harrisburg and your vocal support helped get this incredibly important legislation passed.
I also want to thank Philadelphia’s hard-working municipal employees whose dedication and commitment to public service helped to ensure the success of this budget relief package.
I offer my sincere gratitude to the members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, especially our Philadelphia Delegation, who voted for HB 1828 and have given us the ability to preserve vital city departments and services. They have come through tremendously for the City of Philadelphia, its employees and citizens.
This has been a tough year. The worldwide economic crisis has hit our city hard. But we rolled up our sleeves and met the crisis head on.
And, now with the passage of HB 1828, we can turn this difficult corner and once again renew our efforts to move forward.
I am so proud of how we have weathered this storm as a city, with a typical fighting Philly spirit. Just think of what we can achieve together when we turn that resilience, that determination, that teamwork towards the tremendous opportunities and endless possibilities that lie ahead.
Thank you for your continuing support and for everything you do to make Philadelphia a great city.
Sincerely,
Michael Nutter
Mayor, City of Philadelphia
Message to Mayor Nutter:
You should be embarrassed that the State of Pennsylvania had to bail you and the City of Philadelphia out yet again. This is not good news – rather it is very bad news indeed.
1) The City of Philadelphia still does not have the wherewithal to manage its budget and stay within the limits of their tax revenue.
2) The City of Philadelphia still does not have the intestinal fortitude to make the tough cuts to balance their budget and get within the limits of their tax revenue.
3) The City of Philadelphia has to go to the State of Pennsylvania with hat in hand begging for a bailout yet again.
4) The State of Pennsylvania still does not have the intestinal fortitude to say no and let the city fix it’s own problems.
5) That this process will continue endlessly until there is some real leadership in Philadelphia or Harrisburg that is willing to stand up and say enough is enough!
Not good news. Very bad news for all concerned. Except the hundreds of hack relatives on the doll on the Philadelphia payroll. They are relieved that they can collect their paycheck for another 4 years without disruption.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Every city for itself. Sink or swim!
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Please, Joe, we don’t want to go back (at least I don’t) to the days before Clark and Dilworth!!! It wasn’t a pretty picture then and the Republicans hove nothing good in store for the future!!! Of course, there was a blip when, Rizzo was mayor, but that, too, is in the past. Philadelphia sends a lot of money to HBG and deserves help in these stressful times. There is no jurisdiction, no matter the size, which is not suffering due to the turndown brought on by a deviate Republican administrations, of the past, from the top on down!!!
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU GOT, JOE!!!-:) It could be much worse1!! Oops, I forgot, you don’t live in Philadelphia!!
I got noth’in. I get noth’in.
The city is bankrupt literally and figuratively. There are no services but the very fundamental services that they supply and even those are substandard.
The Democrats have been running Philadelphia for over 50 years so don’t blame the Republicans for the mess that Philly has become. That is the lamest of all arguments.
The Republicans in Washington starting with Ronald Reagan began cutting back on handouts to state and local governments. Yes that was significant but they have had almost 30 years to figure out how to balance a budget and have made zero effort. Zero! They know in the end Harrisburg will bail them out.
Shameful! And you should be ashamed to be defending them.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Cities on their own. Sink or swim!
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose……
Join me and my dear wife Michele as we together advance this country into it’s next chapter called “beyond freedom”.
I’ve given up on hope and change. Hope is running a bit low and the change I was looking for got all mixed up with the real world. So look for my new slogan next week. It will be all the rage……..
I’m getting ready to head over to Maggie’s for breakfast. 2 eggs over easy, side of pork roll and hashbrowns just the way I like them. Then over to Home Depot to press the flesh with my constituents. They are doing a demo on installing a storm door this morning. I always wondered how they did that.
Quiet week in DC this week. Both parties are preparing for the final healthcare battle this fall. A number of prominent Dems have been receiving large campaign donations from United Healthcare, AFLAC, AETNA, etc. I wonder if that may help steer the legislature toward the public option. There is a great article in the 08/17/09 issue of Business Week on healthcare. It is unbiased and examines what is really going on in DC. Grab it and read it before they close your local library. Or have your intern find you a copy like I did.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Keep it simple stupid.
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If a conservative doesn’t like guns, they don’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, then no one should have one.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don’t eat meat. If a liberal is, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect.
If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.
Biden/Palin in 2012! More conservative than not.
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The only good liberal is a sick and dying liberal who voted for Obamacare, and is being treated under the governmnet option. He/she will soon be a very dead liberal. Think about it, rationing healthcare to liberals is not such a bad idea, conservatives will still be able to buy their own insurance and live long healthy, quietly gay lifestyles!
I missed my Saturday night out with the boys in Rehoboth at the Parrott. Those are special times. 5 Kamikazes and no holds barred. Kind of like this site.
Speaking of this site time to change the topic tonight Lar. I was extremely weak to begin with and does not deserve a full week. It may be Christmas before you get 100 posts.
Jimmy a couple of months ago I would have been shocked and dismayed by your last comment. Now I tend to agree with you. The most appropriate outcome for these liberals pushing government run healthcare is to have to live with it.
Personally I have set up dual citizenship in Bermuda. I’ll just jump on a flight there for healthcare. They speak English and wear shorts. It’s tough enough that I had to put away my white belt and shoes. Think it’s time for some more hairplugs?
Biden/Palin in 2012! Too cool for my pants.
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Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
I like Gummi Bears!
Will the last person checking this website please turn the lights off. My guess is that that would be the omnipresent John Fisher but the website could conceivably outlive him. Ed, you seem to be the most responsible person here. Can we trust you with this task?
Lord Abott is not a fan of the Kennnedys, but
Teddy Jr was on larry king tonight and he has
a gift, perhaps too smart and or corrupt to run
for office, but he is presidential material.
His brother Patrick is a putz and its a shame
he was not in the car seat when his father drove
the car off the bridge with mary Jo.
Watching Emmys, does it appear there is not
enough diveristy? These are public airwaves,
one group has way too much control, that’s
another thing Obama should “fix” right after
he finishes healthcare.
Waiting for the 7:01. I never tire of the attention I draw here at Wilmington station. Basically it’s the same 20 some odd people here every morning waiting for the train. They make a point to say hi to me and the secret service guys. I think one of the young ladies and one of my secret service guys have hooked up. That’s why I got into public service in the first place. Bring people together. Kind of like the healthcare bill.
Notice how the Dems have gone silent on healthcare. They are actually in the backrooms and dark shadows of the Dirksen Bldg hammering out the healthcare bill. They decided it was too complicated and too time consuming to debate the bill with Republicans in a public format. This way they can agree internally on a bill, pass it through both committees, bring it into Congress in the middle of the night and get it passed by a majority. So much for transparency and bipartisanship. I guess our motives are pretty transparent when you think about it. You should all be choking on this bill around Thanksgiving. Gobble gobble!
Biden/Palin in 2012! We are as transparent as it comes.
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By the by Lord Abott there is no such thing as a good Kennedy. They made their money as bootleggers. They lived their life above the law. They had misfortune in their lives brought on by their holier than thou attitude and living lies. RIP
Biden/Palin in 2012! What you see is what you get.
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The end of Crimealot
Make that Cumalot.
I know how Obama can change the national healthcare delemma. Give Obama his own show. All proceeds could go toward paying off the National Healthcare bill.
I can see it now. “Hereeeeeees Obama!!!” shouts out Rahm Emanuel. Obama will cover in depth the issues of the day, unless he acutally has to go beyond using the telepromter. The boys from Fox will only appear in video segments depicting them as right wing race baiters.
I do not want my own TV show unless of course it can be based in Chicago and Ophra can be the executive producer. I could take shots at and make fun of Republicans but of course they can’t return fire. I won! I’m President.
Obama conducted an infomercial on five
networks Sunday morning, the late Billy Mays
Would be proud. Only one asked about ACORN,
and FOX news was blocked from interview.
I smell a scandal that will make watergate
look like like kids stuff, its brewing, but
Larry Kane is oblivious, as usual!
LA I’m the Messiah. I’m the Teflon man. I can go on Letterman and make funny (instead of getting made fun of). Screw FOX. I don’t need them. If I do I’ll nationalize them. Hannity will be part of the 10% unemployed he keeps harping about when I take over FOX.
Waiting for the 7:01. You know a lot of people say “Joe, why do you ride the train to DC evbery morning?” There are 3 reasons. 1) DC is too dangerous. You wander a couple blocks off the main streets and you’re mugged or surrounded by prostitutes. Didn’t you watch The District. I felt safer when Chief Manion was in charge. 2) I sleep better in Delaware. No shrill police sirens or ambulence sounds. Quiet neighborhoods. Nice people and they revere me. 3) I get daily gratification as people on the train tell me what a wonderful person I am and what a great job I do. It’s worth getting up at 0′dark thirty each day. It strokes my ego. By the time I get to Union Station I feel really special.
Did you watch Barack on Letterman last night? What a stiff. I wonder how many takes they had to do on some of those jokes. I’m sure he was working of a carefully prepared dialogue and teleprompters. He doesn’t know what day it is without his aides telling him. Can you imagine if W had gone on Letterman. It would have been like chumming in a shark tank. Letterman was very respectful of Barack. Perhaps he too was working off the carefully prepared dialogue and the teleprompter. Ahhhh nothing like live and spontaneous TV!
Biden/Palin in 2012! We can’t read so we won’t be bogged down by teleprompters.
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Obama was killing me on Letterman last night. Just like he is killing me each day with the new socialistic legislature.
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Waiting for the 7:01. Another day in paradise. Boy I made the news yesterday. And yes I got the “shut up” call from Barack. Sure he gets to go on Letterman and do all the cool stuff. I have to sit here in DC and babysit Congress.I make one comment about how we will be out of power after the 2010 elections and he gets all huffy with me. Chill dude. We got this puppy for another 15 months. Think how much damage we can do to this country in the interim. We can enact all kinds of bad legislature. It will take the GOP years to undo the damage we did in 2 years.
Biden/Palin in 2012! We are more grounded.
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Hey speaking of dumbshits how about the king dumbshit Michael Moore? This guy is incredible. Capitalism is bad? Who says stuff like that? Oh yeah Barack believes that too. Where do these guys come up with these crazy ideas?
Biden/Palin in 2012! A chicken in every microwave; a Ford F-150 in every driveway.
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Biden/Palin in 2012! We don’t need no stinking teleprompters!
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Four letter word is Hope.
Six letter word is Change.
So much going on in the world today and back comes the ugly word again, “race”. I guess if you leave your column up long enough the topic becomes fresh again, like magots on a dead body. They too bloom again after their stay in the host body.
Those poor people at the pool
were fined 50,000 dollars. By whom I don’t know, in what court I haven’t the faintest, for what violation, beats me. Hey Larry why not try to explain this to us lowly “cracker” folk?
Ten letter word is Bipartisan
Larry doesn’t have to explain anything. That wasn’t his country club so he falls on the side of the plaintiffs.
If Bill Clinton is not sticking his dinky where it does not belong, he is sticking his foot in his mouth. What a putz.
I’m not a “cracker” but I do have a fried breadcrumb outerlayer. What does that make me?
So, the UN is meeting, hopefully all the liberals
are happy about that. A bunch of anti semites
and terrorist are here lecturing us Americans.
Barrack is president of the world. The Jews
Overwhelingly supported Obama, yet he apologizes
and compromises with the people that want
to kill them. Lord Abott does not understand
that. Maybe Larry Kane can educate him.
Larry can’t educate anyone. He’s no more influential than a substitute teacher.
Waiting for the 7:01. FF you bring back bad memories. My Dad would bring me up to Connie Mack Stadium from Claymont on a Friday night to see a Phillies game. Instead of the hotdog that I had been craving all week I was forced to eat a fried fish sandwich. Like an oversized fishstick in between two hamburger buns(strangely sounds like a Michael Jackson joke). Tell me what 12 year old kid wants a fish sandwich. Not me that’s for sure. By the time my kids were old enough to go to the Vet the church had changed it’s ‘no meat on Fridays’ policy. They never suffered the childhood trauma that I did.
I’m a good Catholic. No a great Catholic. Well except for my position on abortion. They really need to rethink that position. You can’t be a good Catholic with good Catholic beliefs and be a Democrat. Too many conflicts in credo. You become a walking hypocrite and paradox. You know like the Kennedys.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Sarah’s already started the campaign without me.
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By the by did you see Sarah’s foreign policy speech yesterday. I didn’t but I’m going to comment on it anyway. Kind of like voting on legislature that I’ve never read. Happens all the time. No problemo.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1925657,00.html
I’m sure you noticed the sexual tension at the VP debate last fall. You could have cut it with a knife. Sarah stumbling and bumbling her way through answers. Very appealing. Me repeating word for word what Barack was telling me through my earpiece receiver. It was a magical night. I knew that night that she was going to be my third wife errr my running mate. I just misspoke. I’m good at that.
Well our 2012 campaign is official kicked off. I just hope she remembers she’s going to be the VP on the ticket. I will ascend to the Presidency. A position stolen from me by the likes of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and of course Barack. I will overcome.
Biden/Palin in 2012! Did you know they spoke English in Hong Kong?
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Heh Joe, it would appear that English is a second language for you and Sarah. Gibberish would be your primary language.
Hey Larry, I suspect it’s going to go from general disinterest to ugly rage very quickly here on your website if you do not change the topic pretty soon.
Larry, what a day at the UN. The “son of Africa” gave a speech that has given me great pause. What is with all the apologies? Is this guy for real? I’m sure you voted for the son of Africa, so tell me, how are we supposed to last another three plus years with this kind of rhetoric coming from the White House?
I am finding it hard enough to deal with his domestic apology speeches. I have a feeling that we are being set up. Redistribution of wealth, cap and trade, government run health care. He might have said he spent 20 years with Rev. Wright and never heard a nasty thing said, but it looks to me as if he is more of a Rev. Wright diciple.
To set the record straight. I was born in Indonesia sired by an African father and born to American mother. I am therefore a man of the world and not limited to any nation or nationality.
I apologize to the leaders of the world because I an embarrassed at the bully the US became under the Bush Administration. World leaders will only speak to me if I appear contrite and empathetic. I may appear pathetic and clueless to you but I know what I’m doing. I am the Messiah. I am building the foundation for my One World government. We will become the leader of the world by my second term. Only shortsighted nitwits like you do not comprehend and embrace my plan. You will either comply or be sent to the gulags. Clearly it is your choice.
Barry, you clearly misread the American people. You do not have a mandate for radical socialistic change.
Hey flounderboy I can do and say anything I want. I am the Messiah. I am the annointed one. I am Barry from Indonesia. Genuflect in my presence or I’ll have you banished to McDonalds and smothered in tarter sauce. That will be your form of waterboarding.
Check this out from the G-20 Meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vW3fsJ8pk
Waiting for the 7:01. Larry you have lost your flock. Many are gone forever. Many are checking your website less frequently each week. Many are just disgusted. Perhaps Larry falls into the latter category. Snap out of it.
As the back room deals and wheeling and dealing goes on regarding the healthcare bill keep in mind that the longer this takes the less most Americans are going to like the final product. Now that the ruse of bipartisanship is over and the Dems have only themselves to contend with it will get ugly. The internal Dem ugliness will only be overshadowed by the ugliness of the final product. Spend quality time with Grandma over the next 4 months because her healthcare is about to be terminated for “the good of all”.
Biden/Palin in 2012! We love our grandparents.
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It was interesting to see the shock and disgust of the network press yesterday as they reported on Sarah’s speech in Hong Kong. They were convinced that they had completely finished her public career with the indignities and false stories that they reported about her during the campaign. They were looking for the next GOP candidate to assassinate.
Well our gal Sarah fresh from a panda hunting trip in China knocked them dead in HK. Hit a homerun. Wowwed them. She’s still got it. I’m glad she’ll be on my side and my ticket. I like the ring of it. We are still working on our tagline. We have almost 3 years to get it right.
Biden/Palin in 2012! A panda in every zoo; a panda head on every mantel.
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Did you see Rush Limbaugh on Jay Leno last night? He was the biggest nervous nelly I’ve ever seen. Set aside the self promotion and normal ranting he looked like someone on speed or uppers. He was squirming and twitching in his seat. He was talking incessantly without coming up for air. He took his shots so his listeners would applaud. I fear he’s on some other form of drug addiction now. Likely stemming from his dramatic weight loss. Too bad such a brilliant man and leader of the free world has such dependency issues.
Biden/Palin in 2012! We are thin and handsome. We’re high on life without drugs.
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You know it’s a lot easier being a candidate than an elected official. You have to actually do something to remain elected. Sorry Barack.
Joe, good observation on Limbaugh on Leno. He did look extremely jittery. Medication must have worn off.
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Larry, you forgot Alycia Lane, queen of the petulant outburst.
It’s the end product of a capitalist consumer culture that teaches each consumer that his or her needs are the most important thing in the world and are to be satisfied with material products. The message is reinforced over and over through commercial advertising to the point it becomes the baseline assumption many people hold: “I am the center of the universe!” After all of the commercial messages telling people that they are the center of the universe, is it any wonder, then, that people behave like petulant brats when they don’t get their way?
Let’s get STUPID!
Ahhhhh my last hurrah at the condo in Rehoboth. I’ll be shutting it down until Thanksgiving. Old family tradition to have Thanksgiving at the condo.
I’m on my way to Maggies. 2 eggs over easy, side of pork roll and oh those heavenly hash browns. Then over to Home Depot. They have a demo on installing an outside sensor security floodlights this weekend. Not that interested. Can you see the first VP from Scranton on a ladder in the driveway? Now I have people to do these things. I might hold the ladder for my neighbors while they install floodlights if they offer me a Bombay Sapphire neat or 2.
Tonight is my last night alone at the condo. Well not exact alone. I guess you have to count the secret service guys and the guys we bring back from the Parrott. By then we are hammered on Kamikazes. Bonzai!
Biden/Palin in 2012! Two extremes that blend into the perfect mix.
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The irony of Bill Clinton telling Anderson Cooper that its wrong to want Barack to fail as President is really quite hilarious. No one wants Barack to fail any more than the Clintons. Even Rush Limbaugh doesn’t hate Barack as much as Hill and Bill. Barack stole their return to the sun. He is dead to them.
Biden/Palin in 2012! We hold no grudges.
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so people say I’m gay, but that’s just what some people say, that I’m gay,
and to stay away, but I’m not gay,
you should come my way, all day, come
my way and see if i’m gay, you will not
find fay, you will sway my way.
My mother is a fashionista
and I use to dress up in her cloths to
quell my woes, and paint my toes, it’s
just a way to express myself in her cloths.
This blog smells like a public toilet!
I want to be a great serious political journalist and I was told by my life coach to come here to learn from the master, Larry Kane. My
coach is a genius, but i’m having trouble
after looking over the body of work that
Kane presents, where is the canny political insights that someone like George Will, or George Stephanopolous, offer on their web sites? I don’t see it. What I see is a city of ignorant working class people with limited education debating issues they dont know much about, a group of simpletons who respond to a former news anchor’s musings. I am not going to listen to my
coach, I think he’s testing me to see if
I recognize good versus bad journalism.
There is nothing here.
You’re definitely gay or at least your puppetmaster is. No one else would spend so much time putting together such a ridiculous rhyming blog.
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The blah-mosphere must really be bad here lately. Even Mr. Fisher has given up on posting his uproariously biased and unreadable rants. Joe Biden has shuttered his summer retreat and the only one left standing (er swimming) is Mr. Filet. Mrs Paul would be proud.
Fall has arrived and Larry must be down in Boca Vista readying his winter abode for another year. I can’t wait to hear about his many battles on the shuffle board court. If Larry knew any better he would have rented out Bernie Madoff’s place. I understand Obama won’t be using it. Michelle doesn’t like the Palm Beach crowd. Too many snobs, don’t you know. Only the Kennedy’s were into throwing big bashes on the beach, and now with Uncle Teddy gone there is no one left to supply all the Chivas. Can you beleive that Massachusetts changed the law back again to allow the Governor to hand pick Teddy’s replacement? This is after Teddy campaigned to repeal this law under a Republican Gov. And Larry wonders why his loyal followers are somewhat cynical.
I wonder if Ted Kennedy’s hell is drowning in a car? Like the move Groundhog Day. Each day he wakes up and Mary Jo is swimming away from the car leaving him to drown.
Massachusetts is such a flexible state. Whatever it takes to keep Kennedys in office. Ted may keep his seat and vote by Ouija board.
It is a little presumptuous of you, Ed, to assume that I am a Mister. Perhaps you think I’ve hooked up with Mrs Paul.
Hey Fish, maybe Kennedy’s hell is waking up every day and having to smell Barney Franks underpants. Some guys go for that, but Teddy was a mans man, so smelling Frank’s soiled underpants day after day might make him reconsider some of his over the top liberalism. The punishment for Mary Jo could be having to hold a bloody aborted fetus in his hands day after day, that would also help him repent for his religious failings and the denial of life to millions of American children.
Blog change!