On 5/18/10 5:57 PM, moose wrote:
On 5/18/2010 5:31 PM, hk wrote:
On 5/18/10 3:54 PM, moose wrote:
On 5/18/2010 2:11 PM, hk wrote:
On 5/18/10 1:59 PM, moose wrote:
On 5/18/2010 1:33 PM, hk wrote:
On 5/18/10 1:17 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2010 11:13:42 -0400,
wrote:
...snerk of the week:
GOP Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana -- the leading advocate for
abstinence
education in Congress -- will resign after an affair with one of
his
female staffers became public. From his statement of resignation
IT IS WITH GREAT REGRET I ANNOUNCE THAT I AM RESIGNING FROM THE US
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS WELL AS RESIGNING AS THE REPUBLICAN
NOMINEE
FOR CONGRESS IN THIS FALL’S ELECTION. ... IT HAS BEEN ALL CONSUMING
FOR
ME TO DO THIS JOB WELL, ESPECIALLY IN A DISTRICT WITH COSTLY,
COMPETITIVE ELECTIONS EVERY TWO YEARS I DO NOT HAVE ANY SORT OF
"NORMAL"
LIFE - FOR FAMILY, FOR FRIENDS, FOR CHURCH, FOR COMMUNITY.TO SERVE
HAS
BEEN A BLESSING AND A RESPONSIBILITY GIVEN FROM GOD.I WISH I COULD
HAVE
BEEN A BETTER EXAMPLE. I SINNED AGAINST GOD, MY WIFE AND MY
FAMILY BY
HAVING A MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A PART-TIME MEMBER OF MY
STAFF. IN
THE
POISONOUS ENVIRONMENT OF WASHINGTON DC, ANY PERSONAL FAILING IS
SEIZED
UPON, OFTEN TWISTED, FOR POLITICAL GAIN. I AM RESIGNING RATHER
THAN TO
PUT MY FAMILY THROUGH THAT PAINFUL, DRAWN-OUT PROCESS.
Yes, Mark. Washington, DC is to blame. For everything. Even for
your
resignation. Yup.
Of course this wouldn't be a Republican sex scandal if Mark Souder
weren't a hard core family values advocate. You know, the kind who
preaches abstinence.
Swiped from KOS.
It is interesting that the GOP has a zero tolerance policy on these
things but I suppose it doers have to do with the things they are
supposed to stand for.
Maybe he should have just switched parties like Specter ... to save
his job
There you go.
I don't for a moment think that Dems are any more "spouse loyal" than
Repubs. The saving grace for the Dems, though, is that for the most
part
they do not align themselves with the rigid (and hypocritically held)
"family values" of the conservative right, and therefore are less
likely
to be caught up in these sorts of scandals.
I always grin at the foibles of these idiots when they claim they've
"sinned against god." That implies they have special knowledge of a
creator when no one knows if there is one.
I don't know if dumping "abstinence" would help the catholic clergy,
but
I do know it sure as hell would attract a different sort of person to
the priesthood and to the nun sisterhood, and the numbers of those
who
engage in sex with minors probably would diminish as time went on.
Abstinence...the dumbest idea ever.
By your way of thinking, If you don't condemn an act you are less
likely
to be called out when you do it. Whoopty Do!
No, **** for brains. If you don't build your career on pandering to the
false values of the hard right, then when you are caught with your
finger in the nookie jar, you may be called out on it, but at least you
will not be accused of hypocrisy.
No wonder you went into the navy instead of college. You needed someone
to think for you.
It was the pussies and pansys like you and Blumenthal that sought
deferment after deferment to avoid giving service to your country. Are
you claiming some sort of intellectual superiority because you chose the
cowards way out? You have mad a fool of yourself so many times over this
issue. You'd think you'd learn to either avoid it or come up with a
decent lie to cover yourself.
You really are an ignorant asshole, aren't you?
What flajim is telling us here is that after high school, he didn't even
have the smarts necessary to get into college, maintain a 2.0 ("C")
average, and hang onto a II-S student deferment for four or five years.
In other words, he was (and is) as dumb as the proverbial post.
So...no wonder you went into the navy instead of college. You were too
stupid or lazy to get into and stay in a college.
BTW, if memory serves, college students didn't have to seek "deferment
after deferment." All you had to do is make progress towards a degree.
So all you had to do to avoid that dreadful draft was maintain a "c"
average and make progress toward a degree. How convenient for you.
So, what I think you are trying to tell us is that those that enlisted
or allowed themselves to be drafted, are dumb, stupid and lazy.
I find it difficult to put into words my contempt for you.
I suppose I could do as you do and say Eat **** And Die.
I can see that your blood pressure must be sky high by now. Be careful
you don't have an aneurysm.
It's not all *I* had to do, but it was all one had to do to maintain a
II-S deferment. Not only did I have a 3.9 average, overall, as an
undergrad, but my last year and a half, I had a full-time night job
on a newspaper. My grades and recommendations were good enough for a
fellowship to grad school.
You were and are dumb, stupid and lazy. If you want to project *that*
onto those who served with you, that's your call. It isn't mine. And you
were such a stellar soldier, you won't even discuss what you did in the
navy, or what you did once out. My guess is that you were a handyman's
boat repair guy, a freelancer unable to get hooked up with a franchised
dealer.
BTW, my blood pressure these days runs about 110 over 60-65. There's
nothing you or any of the right-wing turds here could do to raise it.
--
The Tea Party's teabaggers are just the Republican base by another name.