HULK SMASHED
FUCK HIM AND BUSH
Liars? Frist 'em
I just read that article and believe that the end times are near if the other media outlets do not pick up on this story and the one from the Miami Herald. DAMN THE SO CALLED LIBERAL MEDIA!
Why isn't anyone trying to feed me?
DNR Delay.
well, well, well. I'm shocked. So shocked if I knew how to do italics, I would.
If this past week and a half could bring down DeLay, things would start looking a lot more hopeful.
If only DeLay had an honest job, like being a drilling contractor.
Oh, wait, I guess he IS trying to drill us all....
Thanks for the link, Atrios. It puts everything in context, don't it?
I wish I thought this would do it. The cynicism is reaching alarming levels.
Too bad Tommy didn't go for a tram ride that day.
I'd say "Unbelievable!", but the Unveiling Of These Truths doesn't surprise me in the least anymore.
I've come to expect it.
OT sort of. I went to a wedding this evening and spent some time with my friend's son who just returned from Iraq. We were talking about the lack of power, phone service, the lack of fuel for the Iraqis, the daily bombings and all of the stuff that the reality based community is aware of: the other people standing there had their mouths drop down to the knees. They knew NOTHING of what is actually going on there. He told me that they were losing power more than ten times a day and each time the generators kicked on and burned up the computers and such because of power surges. It was his job to repair or replace them. Damn the So Called Unbiased Media (SCUM)
I will not sully the new TV with images of rightie whities.
But what about the schools, DWD. Damn you, the schools! The schools! The schools!
I wish I thought this would do it. The cynicism is reaching alarming levels.
mena
Mine, too, Mena. This crap just keeps piling up and still we see they're all still charging forward with whatever is the agenda of the week.
And despite articles like this, I don't expect anything will happen to get the bugman out of our faces.
You would think a situation like what he went through with his father would have created some empathy in him for what is going on with the Schiavo case.
But I am convinced to be a hard core radical republican require a lack of the empathy gene. Oh, and unmitigated greed.
Seems Delay has both in spades.
He had no consciousness that I could see," Braddick said. "He did a bit of moaning and groaning, I guess, but you could see there was no way he was coming back."
hmmmm. That sounds somehow familiar . . .
How much do you want to bet that President Bush will respond within hours, if not minutes, to the Schindlers in the tragic Terri Schiavo case upon receiving word that Mrs. Schiavo has passed?
He won't wait for days and days as he did after the tsunami and the Minnesota tragedies to say something "from his heart". And I doubt if he'll express his condolences directly to Michael Schiavo.
Karl Rove's policy is always play to your base and tsunami and American-Indian victims are not President Bush's base, while Christian religious fanatics are. So, wanna bet on Bush's ?heart-felt? response in the next several days?
Maybe someone should start an on-line contest where people can guess how many minutes/hours it will take for Bush to speak up after Mrs. Schiavo's passing. Maybe he'll even hold a press conference.
My entry: four hours and fifteen minutes.
Puts me in the mind of the repetition compulsion, by which the psychoanalytically inclined try to explain why some people seem unconsciously to recreate traumatic situations and relationships over and again. There is a driving desire to get it to turn out the right way this time, but it never really does and they move on to try again somewhere else. More recently such behavior has been traced to the overfunctioning of the amygdala.
OTOH, DeLay could just be a hypocritical jerkass fascist.
Emily - it's been going on for so long now, I'm afraid of what happens when enough people lose the ability to be shocked. I don't reallywant to live in the sun king's court.
DeLie is a fucking HACTACULAR lying, stinking, frad. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
I have no idea what we're watching, but there is a big fluffy cat on the screen. It appears to be about the size of a panther.
And not only did the son-of-a-bitch have the nerve to hire a TRIAL LAWYER to SUE because his father was an inept amateur engineer, he got a $250K JUDGMENT and then rewrote the law so that no one else could benefit the way he did.
Have I mentioned tonight just how much I loathe these people?
I bet CNN a.k.a. Christian News Network will forget to mention this juicy little tidbit
One reason DeLay, et. als., decision wrt Schiavo is so opposed in the polls is that just about every family has now gone through this in one fashion or another. So it is clear to the people how they themselves have probably had to let someone go....
Anyway, that's why I feel this may just be a temporary setback for the President of Darkness.
He'll be in safer territory once he's screwing over OTHER people again.
Remind me why the 1/25 sociopath thing is just nonsense, now?
so does this mean that tom delay is a murderer?
One of the guys I play poker with has a step-son who (I hope) will be coming back from Iraq at the end of April. He's a stockbroker and thus a huge Bushite -- and maddeningly condescending when I can't stand it anymore and go off on one of my rants. He's thoroughly convinced the rebuilding is moving apace in Iraq and that we're turning the corner on the war. The step-son's at whatever that big camp is close to what's left of Fallujah (luckily, because of specialized training, he wasn't there for the "liberation" of Fallujah). I'm hoping my poker pal will learn a little something talking to his step son when he gets back.
so the delay family sues the manufacturer of the tram, collects $250k and:
"Three years later, DeLay cosponsored a bill specifically designed to override state laws on product liability such as the one cited in his family's lawsuit. The legislation provided sweeping exemptions for sellers of such products."
wow. that's pretty fucked up.
He'll probably just disown his stepson as a traitor, Toonscribe. Can't let the illusion die.
How much do you want to bet that President Bush will respond within hours, if not minutes, to the Schindlers in the tragic Terri Schiavo case upon receiving word that Mrs. Schiavo has passed?
Yep. It took him 5 days to respond to the worst school shooting since Colombine. I guess red people don't want our freedoms.
Toonscribe--not only do I hope he learns something from his stepson, but I hope he loses all his money to you.
"The situation faced by the congressman's family was entirely different than Terri Schiavo's," said a spokesman for DeLay, who declined requests for an interview.
"The only thing keeping her alive is the food and water we all need to survive. His father was on a ventilator and other machines to sustain him," said Dan Allen, DeLay's news aide.
So...one is hooked up to a machine that pumps protein goo directly into her stomach, the other was hooked up to a machine that pumped oxgen into his lungs.
I honestly do not understand the qualitative difference here. If you can't live without the insertion of a tube into your abdomen and the pumping of nutrition through that tube by a third party....the only difference between you and a guy on a ventilator is that he'll (probably) die faster when his is removed.
Technically, if we've been turning the corner so long, we've gone around 180 degrees and we're now technically backtracking.
I'm beginning to wonder. Can anyone name any single aspect of his life in which Tom Delay is not the biggest hypocritical bastard anyone here's ever seen?
badly injured in a freak accident at his home
Norman Bates,........anyone.
Toonscribe - WWIII, brown people, Islam is a religion of terror. Hopeless to try and change those minds.
Nim--there are qualitative differences, but not in terms of quality of life.
Maybe someone should start an on-line contest where people can guess how many minutes/hours it will take for Bush to speak up after Mrs. Schiavo's passing. Maybe he'll even hold a press conference.
My entry: four hours and fifteen minutes.
The Oracle
My money is on one hour or less.
so does this mean that tom delay is a murderer?
To be fair to Delay (gagh!), I believe this means rather that he is only an accessory to murder in the first degree.
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I've been following the two concurrent "Death Watches" ongoing on cable news--name Terry Schiavo & the Pope and got to wondering what would happen if they just happened to leave us on the same day.
Click the link to find out.
http://www.filehigh.com/viewimg....p?f=1260&
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"Maybe someone should start an on-line contest where people can guess how many minutes/hours it will take for Bush to speak up after Mrs. Schiavo's passing. Maybe he'll even hold a press conference."
Cretainly. And he'll appoint a 'blue ribbon panel' of RW moralists, fake scientists and rw clergy to look into this further. It might even lead to 'Terri's Law'.
if I knew how to do italics, I would.
jdw
Comment areas on some blogs have that info
Try
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/
for one.
Disclaimer:
Fuck you if you think I give a shit if you think I have any thing to do with leftcoaster.
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When can we officially say "big darkness, here now"?
First, I predict Terri Schiavo dies tomorrow, on Easter, just to make 'em go crazy.
Second, is there going to be a funeral? Boy, that would be a circus, now wouldn't it? Poor Mr. Schaivo. If he doesn't have a funeral, they will attack him for not letting the parents say good bye. If he does have one, oh my Gawd, what a circus.
Three years later, DeLay cosponsored a bill specifically designed to override state laws on product liability such as the one cited in his family's lawsuit. The legislation provided sweeping exemptions for sellers of such products.
Was it just a campaign contribution disguised as a legal settlement?
Even more important is the lawsuit information. Tort reform...DeLay-icious.
i hate to be crass, but did anyone notice that the senior delay literally died driving off a cliff.
it's in the genes.
so does this mean that tom delay is a murderer?
To be fair to Delay (gagh!), I believe this means rather that he is only an accessory to murder in the first degree.
actually, wouldn't this be criminal conspiracy since he was working with others?
"There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old mother, recalled in an interview last week. "There was no way he (Charles) wanted to live like that. Tom knew, we all knew, his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."
That was then. Grandstanding blowhard DeLie is on the record pimping the Shiavo matter in purely political benifit terms. He's outta there.
Maybe Tom is reliving his past. DNR-remorse?
One wonders how many oil worker deaths happened as a result of asbestos. The kind of case Big Dick is trying to absolve his company of.
Sorry, hate to disappoint you, but DeLay isn't up for national election. His stupid district will probably re-elect him. I live there.
Shirty--I'm so sorry.
bnky,
Hahahaha. Yep. They want to delay (hint) the rapture till they drive America over a cliff.
What do you expect from a city where 50% of the elementary school talent show acts were lip synching to Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American."
Completely OT: what time is it now on the east coast of the US: is it 11 pm on a Saturday evening and when does daylight saving time in the US start? Eastern Australia put its clocks back one hour this morning. Just wondering ..
Thanks in advance 
So let me get this straight. Tom Delay & family supported "murder" and then sued but he doesn't think an ordinary citizen has the same right!! Also, Rick Santorum & family used the courts to sue, but doesn't think we should!!
Maybe we should try and make a list of all these politicians who ever supported "murder" in their own families and/or sued for gain and won. I'm sure we could generate a lot interest, especially if the list is long, and I expect it would be.
Sallyh
Unfortunately, he's a very good poker player. I am reasonably good -- win a little or break even most of the time and occasionally win big (or what passes for big in our friendly quarter ante game).
The thing with my poker buddy that bothers me the most is a lack of real empathy for people. He seems like a reasonably nice guy most of the time, but he really just doesn't have any clue that maybe people who are struggling to get by didn't have this problem because of some character flaw. How hard is it to figure out that sometimes people are just unlucky, especially unlucky enough to be born without advantages and connections?
Shirty--did you do something terrible in your childhood to deserve this?
I take it back. Not many kids could have met those qualifications. GWB being a notable exception.
"I honestly do not understand the qualitative difference here."
Well, there is a definitional difference, I think.(not that it matters in some respects)
If I understand correctly, life is defined as ending when all brain function ceases. That means if brain stem functions are present...breathing, heartbeat, eye movement... even in the absense higher level responces, a person is still 'alive' in some sense.
The Schindlers have told everyone to go home. It must be condition Red at Fox. Their story is dying faster than Terri. I am really dreading their next spin. We can think poorly of the Schindlers or on the other hand, of Michael. I just hope both sides can heal from this when Terri takes her last breath. We should never have been privey to this tragedy. But people such as Delay and Frist, coupled with the enabling power of a media one side calls liberal and the other calls wingnut are truly responsible.
Toonscribe:
He's thoroughly convinced the rebuilding is moving apace in Iraq and that we're turning the corner on the war.
Oh, but you know better, right?
Sorry, but I have answered my own question - the eastern seaboard of the US is now 15 hours behind Australia which means you are only going to introduce daylight saving time next weekend.
Luckily I was naive to the broader implications of all of this. I sat there, innocently, while teachers told their classes about how they hoped we were all virgins and how abortion was popularized to thin down the ranks of brown people.
My entry: four hours and fifteen minutes.
The Oracle
My money is on one hour or less.
RoyalWickedness
I'm guessing his heartfelt message will be an hour 15 minutes after her death. They'd probably want it sooner, but we have to account for the "where's aWol" factor.
Charles DeLay sounds like a certifiable idiot. How embarrassing. Not something a 65 year-old man would do unless he was drunk.
Hey, want to ride on my all new, personally designed (untested) tram that will take you 200 feet straight do to the lake at the bottom of this canyon?
Hell no! Who wants to end up like Terry Schiavo, in some kind of permanent vegetative state or worse?
Poppa DeLay must have had one of those bumper sticker that claims to the world that he is a, “Redneck, and proud of it”.
Maybe poppa DeLay was always in a vegetative state to being with. And just how did Tom get that defective, crooked eye of his anyways? Did poppa DeLay slap junior around a little bit or did junior develop some kind of stupid contraption of his own. Maybe DeLay accidentally sprayed his eye with some scorpion strength killer inspected when he could figure out which end of his wand was the nozzle.
Gosh, talk about the shallow end of the gene pool.
The Schindlers have told everyone to go home? Why don't I think it'll be that easy.
Disclaimer: Fuck you if you think I give a shit if you think I have any thing to do with leftcoaster.
Where did that come from? That's a really good blog. And there ain't no assholes there yipping about "Frist!"
April 3rd.
Hitchens VS Scarborough on Terri Schiavo coverage:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com...ens.mov\">CLICK HERE TO SEE SCARBOROUGH GET REAMED
I give the Schindlers credit for telling everyone to leave and just leave them alone. Let it be as it should have been--privacy for all those close to her to be with her as she passes.
er....that should be,
"scorpion strength killer insecticide."
Poppa DeLay must have had one of those bumper sticker that claims to the world that he is a, “Redneck, and proud of it”.
Ever hear the redneck joke punchline that ends with, "Hey! Watch this!"
Oops.
http://movies.crooksandliars.com....mov\">HITCHENS VS SCARBOROUGH VIDEO
What were the redneck's famous last words?
"Hold my beer and watch this!"
But this, and all his other evil ways like the Mexican whorehouse, pimping his daughter in the hot tub with lobbyists, these were things in his past, BEFORE he found Jeebus. Well, ok, before he REALLY found Jeebus, later, you know. Now he is washed clean as snow, and none of that stuff matters anymore; and no fair digging it up either, with your politics of personal destruction.
As far as how long after Terri Schiavo's death Bush will say something?
I bet he has already has a statement written, if not an already recorded video.
When can we officially say "big darkness, here now"? -Seebach
Big darkness vs. Big Science. Hard to tell who'll win. Just don't forget your mittens.
Big Science. Hallelujah.
Every man, every man for himself.
Big Science. Hallelujah. Yodellayheehoo.
Toonscribe, your friend sounds like my classic definition of a republican when my kids ask what this difference between dems and repubs. I tell them repubs think anybody that needs help isn't trying hard enough or trying to get away with something (like they would given the opportunity). Dems realize sometimes people have hardships through no fault of their own and are willing to take the chance somebody might game the system so people who truly need help get it.
I thought we were supposed to err on the side of life!
JeffCO--I'm voting for Big Science myself
And if you'd been my little brother, I most assuredly would have made you change the channels. As a firstborn, it is my solemn obligation and privilege to beat up on the laterborns
"Disclaimer:
Fuck you if you think I give a shit if you think I have any thing to do with leftcoaster."
What was that all about? Took a quick look, looks good enuf to me. Nonetheless, thanks!
Cheryl | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 11:08 pm |
I give the Schindlers credit for telling everyone to leave and just leave them alone. Let it be as it should have been--privacy for all those close to her to be with her as she passes.
Sallyh
Buddy, are you tripping? [/snark] Those dumbasses have orchesrtated this entire circus. Moments after they asked for *privacy*, their idiot son gave an interview on Faux "News."
"Avid tinkerers" build a 200 foot tram down the cliff in their backyard...the thing fucks up on its "maiden voyage", they sue the bearing company and win $250,000?
$250,000 is chump change...that's a "go away" settlement. A kinda "we all know the bearings had nothing to do with it, but here's some cash so stop bothering us with the bad publicity". "Avid tinkerers" pretty much says it all.
Bugman obviously inherited the reckless gene..or was it a life choice?
"I give the Schindlers credit for telling everyone to leave and just leave them alone. Let it be as it should have been--privacy for all those close to her to be with her as she passes."
Yeah, credit. They seem to be real big on privacy.
Oh, but you know better, right?
Toby Petzold |
Yes, Toby, I do.
Okay. I misinterpreted their statement about wanting everyone to go home for Easter. I'd like to think some reality is checking in on them at this point, but I, too, am skeptical.
Christ, they're worse than the trolls if they gave the interview after declaring no more. Eventually even the trolls sleep.
I give the Schindlers credit for telling everyone to leave and just leave them alone. Let it be as it should have been--privacy for all those close to her to be with her as she passes.
Q. Who's the fastest man in America?
A. The man who can get between a Schindler and a camera.
Oh, and Bigvic? I think i'm just overly optimistic. It makes you think strange thoughts.
Now he is washed clean as snow,
Not!
Disclaimer: Fuck you if you think I give a shit if you think I have any thing to do with leftcoaster.
Where did that come from? That's a really good blog. And there ain't no assholes there yipping about "Frist!"
Toby Petzold
Sorry if I confused you.
I was making fun of disclaimers.
Actually, I'm not so sorry, I think I'll try to do it again, you know, troll like.
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Maybe it's the 60" TV. What in the hell are we doing with a 60" TV, anyway?
""Avid tinkerers" build a 200 foot tram down the cliff in their backyard...the thing fucks up on its "maiden voyage", they sue the bearing company and win $250,000?"
Hey, anyone wanna ride in my homemade Saturn V rocket?
House Majority Leader Tom Delay is a complete and utter asshole.
There. I said it.
So, do the Schindlers have to give back all the payoffs from their wingnut handlers?
If the story gets any broader coverage, I wonder how many seconds it will take for someone on the knee-jerk right to whine that DeLay's private life should be left private.
I mean...they have such a talent for irony and all.
"Avid tinkerers" build a 200 foot tram down the cliff in their backyard...the thing fucks up on its "maiden voyage", they sue the bearing company and win $250,000?
Sounds like a frivolous shakedown lawsuit filed by the tax and spend liberal trial lawyers if you ask me.
Sallyh
I guess those payoffs would be on Schindlers list
Google "schiavo" then hit "feeling lucky"
then BARF.
Oh, and FUCK the Useless Timewasters™.
You all know who they are...
My question... what does this revert to when this is over? Social Security? Or Iraq?
And if you'd been my little brother, I most assuredly would have made you change the channels. - Sallyh
And had you been my big sister I'd be in your living room right now, eating your snacks and making you watch American Splendor in 60" hi-def wonder.
My question... what does this revert to when this is over? Social Security? Or Iraq?
Whoever Brad Pitt is fucking right now.
"Maybe it's the 60" TV. What in the hell are we doing with a 60" TV, anyway?"
I thought it was gonna be 42"?
Avid tinkerers" build a 200 foot tram down the cliff in their backyard...the thing fucks up on its "maiden voyage"
Did they get a Darwin Award?
Italics =
Bold =
Just remember to close your tags.
Now If I could only learn the Tiny URL for my links all would be coolio.
Happy Easter everyone. Peeps for all my friends.
Papa DeLay rode down a homemade tram?
There's video of that somewhere.
A Darwin Award.
Exactly what I was thinking, 'cept the base don't believe in no Darwin.
Wow I thought they would be in there.
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What was that all about? Took a quick look, looks good enuf to me. Nonetheless, thanks!
jdw
Sorry, was just being sarcastic, looks like I confused more than you. Should a done a 
My bad.
Neighbor Braddick visited the hospital and said it seemed very clear to everyone there was little prospect of recovery.
"He had no consciousness that I could see," Braddick said. "He did a bit of moaning and groaning, I guess, but you could see there was no way he was coming back."
I'm wondering if big Daddy was SCREAMING Awwwwww Waaaaaa!
shirty ...
Is DeLay's district one giant freak show? Or are there a few sane folks there in addition to you?
There are a few sane people. But it's hard to know. I mean, do you want to put up a bumper sticker saying you're against DeLay and be shot? Not saying this has happened, but do you want to risk it?
Everyone in town carries concealed handguns. Even in church.
I'm guessing they never saw the delightful 1986 Australian film Malcolm, in which a clever young man (successfully) builds his own tram, among other contraptions.
Unrepentant Fenian: you are not making me feel very confident about trying italics and bold.
Of course, considering the recent church shootings, maybe that isn't such a bad idea...
"I give the Schindlers credit for telling everyone to leave and just leave them alone. Let it be as it should have been--privacy for all those close to her to be with her as she passes."
How nice of them. Tell that to the barefoot woman who got frisked at the gate that couldn't say goodbye to her grandfather due to the wingnuts causing a ruckus.
There are supposedly 50 some people in that hospice with families dealing with one of the hardest times in their lives being crapped on.
I'm sorry whats going on with their daughter but that comment proves to me they are living in some kind of bubble oblivious to the outside world.
I said before on these threads I just watched my sister in law at the age of 32 pass away from cancer and we as a family had to make the decision to pull life support.
If I had been turned away at the gate her last day because of some government instigated act of insanity I would have gone postal.
I would love to hear what all of the family members who have had to deal with that hospice feel and if they appreciate being called murderers by a Congressman and the media should they had been in the position to pull life support. I guess our family party to a crime according to Delay.
Odd how you havn't seen a second of Michael Schiavo in days yet the family has been plastered all over the news 24/7.
Here is a handy link to using handy HTML tags. Just a click away. Good luck.
shirty ...
Where in TX is his district?
Delay's dad rode the homemade sugarland express?
Where in TX is his district?
If you where to give TX an enema, that's were you would plug it in.
Around Houston. Originally it was Sugarland. I used to be in Ken Bentsen's district, and he was pretty liberal, since the Rice University area was included. After the 2000 census, my right wing little suburb got hooked into DeLay's cesspool.
got my where were backwards...
Duhlay is an asshole.
Thanks, bigvic
drat.
Another area of Houston has his disciple, John Culberson.
Heh. In high school, they had Earth Day music festivals in Houston, sponsored by this little-heard-of company called Enron.
Damn, Shirty ... My congressman -- the the congressman in the adjacent district -- are some of the good guys: Charlie Rangel and Jerry Nadler, respectively.
Thanks, Jeb 667,
Still getting a 404. Maybe it just doesn't like my computer. 
"The thing with my poker buddy that bothers me the most is a lack of real empathy for people. He seems like a reasonably nice guy most of the time, but he really just doesn't have any clue that maybe people who are struggling to get by didn't have this problem because of some character flaw. How hard is it to figure out that sometimes people are just unlucky, especially unlucky enough to be born without advantages and connections?
Toonscribe | Email | Homepage | 03.26.05 - 11:06 pm | # "
Do you play poker with Bush?
The Rice University-containing district I was cut out of became Chris Bell's district, which was destroyed by the redistricting, I believe.
See that the NYT (via Kos) is sticking another fork in DeLay.
If this past week and a half could bring down DeLay, things would start looking a lot more hopeful.
I know I'd throw a big party.
Hey sallyh, you got talked into a 60" TV?
Is there any legal reason that this country could NOT offer people in prison reduced sentences in exchange for enlisting in the military?
Not that *I* know of, Res, but that sounds like a bad idea. You wouldn't want racists and people who enjoy killing and torturing people to be in the military.
Is there any legal reason that this country could NOT offer people in prison reduced sentences in exchange for enlisting in the military?
Yes, you don't want convicted felons in the military. Ooops, you wanted a legal reason.
Is there any legal reason that this country could NOT offer people in prison reduced sentences in exchange for enlisting in the military?
Because giving felons who've been reading Chairman Mao and the Final Call machine guns, Apache helicopters and cruise missiles is a bad idea?
You wouldn't want racists and people who enjoy killing and torturing people to be in the military.
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Umm,..Shirty.......
Old Hat ... I understand that. That's why I asked if there was a "legal reason."
I was thinking of what lengths the government will go to to avoid a draft. I wondered if they would take people in on non-violent felonies and offer them early release in exchange for enlistment.
"I don't care if it rains or freezes,"
Long as I got my plastic Jesus,
Sittin on the dashboard of my car."
It's reassuring the know not much has changed since Paul Newman sang this little diddy in "Cool Hand Luke."
It's as timely now as it was then.
Virgin birth...
I mean, you wouldn't want to send the message that we approve of soldiers that have no respect for human dignity and life.
PT Barnum was right.
As I recall from the old draft days, being a convicted felon was one of the things that could keep you OUT of the military. I also remember that sometimes, if you were busted for something, they'd drop the charges IF you enlisted -- so technically you weren't a convicted felon at the time of enlistment.
There wasn't enough delay in the tram.
OT: can someone with experience in burning cd's email me to answer a few questions I have? I bought a Memorex burner with Nero today and am trying to burn my first cd.
thanks.
my email is: sandraw1 - at - mindspring.com
I can't see how a draft is off the table, even if it is politically impossible.
" I also remember that sometimes, if you were busted for something, they'd drop the charges IF you enlisted"
Paging Michael Jackson, paging Michael Jackson.
OT, but very special Easter Bunny-blogging!
I wondered if they would take people in on non-violent felonies and offer them early release in exchange for enlistment.
Since most non-violent felonies are drug possession charges, I don't know how well that would work out either.
Do you really want ex coke heads manning checkpoints? I wonder what that would do to the number of "friendly fire" incidents.
sandra...sent ya an email. I gots Nero, too.
Res Ispa,
Your law education is paying off in spades. I'm proud of your vigorous mental exercise. The law is not always an ass. HA!
I also remember that sometimes, if you were busted for something, they'd drop the charges IF you enlisted -- so technically you weren't a convicted felon at the time of enlistment.
My high school biology teacher was a punk as a teenager. After he was busted stealing car radios, the judge said either he could join the Army or go to jail. He went on to become a Ra