Rex Kickass

It happened to Reichen Lehmkuhl too. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1549383,00.html

Why don't you ask Devery Taylor's victims?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 09:03 AM) Soxtalk.com crashes with all of the death threats overwealming the PM system if their favorite players are traded... My surprise move is that Mark Prior leaves Arizona as the fifth starter for Chicago... The White Sox. White Sox then forfeits five games due to "PHP error." Surprise move: Pods traded as soon as hes healthy enough.

DADT prevents soldiers from reporting same sex rape because they'll also get drummed out of the service as a suspected homosexual.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 02:11 AM) I'm bored, so I'll dump gas on it. What does this have to do with his ability to do his job?? Probably nothing to be honest. If he did this in the office portion of an embassy compound, its grounds for recall. If he did this in the residence portion, I don't see why this is anyone's business to begin with. QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 08:20 AM) I thought El Salvador translated to "The Slave". Boy imagine my embarassment... The weird thing is I thought you usually wore the ball gag.

I think it doesn't matter. It affects maybe 10 votes.

Biden is really a nonstarter IMO. Richardson has the potential to jump to the top tier easily actually, but it seems like his campaign is more about saving his push for within say six months of the first vote cast.

IMO: Sharpton's asking legitimate questions. There are a lot of people, myself included, that we're getting style over substance with Obama - that it's all flash and no flame.

I find it ironic that an arm of the government that has been involved with prisoner abuse of the worst kind in the last four years is lecturing anyone what is or isn't immoral.

http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning/index.html

I'm just glad they kept Southsider's name out the article. Now we know what his Latin American "Scouting" trips are really all about....

Thats why the Democrats should clearly team up for the ET/Insider Presidential Gossip Forum in Nashua, NH this October!

I don't know what to think about that.

I think there's a serious case to removing the current AG by his open flouting of complying the laws that he is charged with enforcing in regards to his report to Congress, as well as a number of other issues debated here previous. Frankly, he oughta not just be fired, but rather impeached. His utter contempt for the laws that rule how his office operates itself is disturbing.

It's not too often that you see this kind of calling for heads to roll on a national level from the big newspapers.... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin

Nevada Democratic Party pulls out of scheduled primary presidential debate with Fox News in Reno, Aug 14. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3069.html

Hey, I have couches to crash in the bay area. Makes it an easy destination. Now all I have to do is reconquer my fear of flying....

I think the problem is that the government is doing this for no good reason. We gave the FBI the right to use it in specific circumstances and the law has simply been ignored.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 01:42 PM) About the only difference I saw was that she didn't use any slurs. That's a big difference IMO. Compare Coulter to anyone - and there are people like Ted Rall that are worth the comparison... but Molly Ivins might have been bitter or aggravated, but she seemed much more like a crank, and less like Ann Coulter.

This guy's gonna be on the west coast for the first time ever at the end of next month. Anyone here from the Bay Area wanna catch an A's game in the last weekend of April?

I read that last night and was pretty floored. When "America's Mayor" can't get an invite to a bipartisan presidential forum because of his actions post-9/11 towards NYC Firefighters, I'd worry about his legit chances to win the election. In other news, Gingrich admitted this week that he was having an affair while attempting to get Clinton kicked out of office regarding the fury over his sex scandal.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 08:05 AM) A very good comparision indeed, if you ask me. Molly Ivins was never that coarse.

OT: Weren't the 86 Bears on track to do just as well til McMahon got hurt?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 02:30 PM) It was absolutely politically motivated. That stunk, and this stinks as well. However, there was much more that Starr could have went after and didn't. The point is, though, Clinton perjered himself and got away with it. Libby did too, and didn't get away with it. I don't think he knows what the hell he was doing, to be honest. I know you all want to make it seem like VP Dick was puppetting this whole thing, but I don't think so, based on some of the evidence that came out. BTW, there is a difference between "classified" and "covert", but that's neither here nor there anyway. All I can say is, any decent lawyer makes sure that his client gets his story straight before he appears under oath. From what I understand, there were direct contradictions in his own testimony from appearance to appearance. There were also direct contradictions from other people who testified in the Grand Jury to what Libby said. The truth is Libby got popped for perjury which he probably did commit. He also got popped for obstruction of justice, lying to FBI investigators and making false statements. The only thing he was found innocent of was lying to the FBI. Given that the jury took two weeks to deliberate on his guilt or innocence and went so far as to ask the judge for a definition of reasonable doubt, there is every expectation in my mind that the jury took its job seriously and that political affiliation was not a factor in its decision. Further, Fitzgerald has no official party affiliation and was appointed by a Republican. Fitzgerald sought no expansion of his powers as special prosecutor in this case. The Clinton perjury charge was specifically related to one question that he answered in a deposition about whether he'd had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. He said that he had not. Under grand jury testimony, he stated that he had an inappropriate physical relationship with Lewinsky but that he also didn't consider a BJ sex. It's a lame excuse, to be sure, but I don't know that this even comes close to passing the smell test when it comes to perjury. What's more, during the impeachment trial, the Impeachment managers couldn't even get a majority of Senators to vote for conviction on the perjury trial. Ten Senators from the GOP peeled off to the Dem side to vote innocent. The only article that had a prayer was the obstruction of justice charge and that, still, fell 17 votes short.

A couple things are different between the President's impeachment trial and this criminal trial. The first of which is that Libby's trial is a criminal trial. The second of which is that Libby testified before grand juries several times. Not only was his story different than others on his side, but they were different each time he went up to testify - and not in minor ways. Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury once. The Clinton trial, although some people may feel it justified, was - at its essence - politically motivated. Articles of impeachment had been introduced by many of the same Congressmen who introduced it in 1998 as early as 1993. It is my understanding that someone who is impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" can also be tried in criminal court for the same offenses. If there was a serious legal issue that warranted an actual conviction in this case, why didn't Starr seek out federal prosecution for Clinton after he left office in 2001? Had the statute of limitations run out? Or had Clinton's "indictment" been unable to pass the smell test in a criminal court?