Today’s been another busy one for me, so enjoy some bloggy goodness from these fine folks.
* Infidels Are Cool has a video clip of a very angry Muslim woman who attacks a street preacher after he talks about Mohammed’s pedophilie marriage to 9-y…

The variation is now: if you think this Republican is bad, there’s a whole department that is even worse.

It’s sad, really. Here’s a perfect opportunity for lgm to stay on topic on a subject he should like and he still can’t help but bring equivalency into it and talk about the Justice Department.

On July 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am, lgm said:

Just open that manhole cover and peek out of the underground place protected from liberal influences.

Says the man that posts link after link from talkingpointsmemo.com.

More serious was the results of an internal investigation of hiring in the Justice Department — political and illegal. Presumably the rest of the departments were corrupted in a similar way.

Could you provide a link to the report? or a story of said report?

It’s on every major news outlet except possibly Fox. Just open that manhole cover and peek out of the underground place protected from liberal influences.

On July 30th, 2008 at 1:43 am, lgm said:
More serious was the results of an internal investigation of hiring in the Justice Department — political and illegal. Presumably the rest of the departments were corrupted in a similar way.

Could you provide a link to the report? or a story of said report?

Dude, you’re not helping.

He’ll always have that bridge…

That reminds me. McCain claimed that he saved us money by opposing the Bridge to Nowhere. But in reality, McCain didn’t even show up for the vote. In addition, the senate allowed Alaska to use the money earmarked for the Bridge to Nowhere for other projects of their choosing. So we didn’t save a dime. They did this to placate Sen. Stevens who threated to resign over the issue:

“I don’t kid people,” Stevens roared. “If the Senate decides to discriminate against our state . . . I will resign from this body.”

Why couldn’t the Senate recognize a win-win situation when they saw one?

I’ve always wondered what Alaska did with the bridge-to-nowhere money. There were no strings attached except that it could not be used to build the bridge. Does anyone know what became of the hundreds of millions given to Alaska to prevent Stevens from resigning? It didn’t go to build a Stevens Memorial or to buy furniture for Stevens’ newly remodeled home, did it?

Yeah, didn’t think so. Maybe because it was further down in 2 point type…and oh yeah, he’s a Democrat.

Move along, nothing to see here.

Another example of an AP story, by the same reporter, changing from what was originally posted. The first change came after about 30 minutes, with a more sinister headline, to something else about 42 minutes after the original post showing two other GOP senators previously indicted. One was Kay Bailey Hutchison where it was shown a judge ordered her acquittal, but no mention of the political hack DA behind her indictment.

The last change I saw removed the two previously indicted Senators from the article.

For AP’s snotty attitude towards bloggers, at least bloggers are honest in indicating their updates.

All the articles made very clear Stevens was a GOP senator, as were the two examples of other Senators provided, with quotes from colleagues clearly indicated they were GOP.

What a contrast from a dem in trouble. No indication of party, and no quotes from any colleagues.

He is accused of having lied on a federal form and if he did, he needs to suffer the consequences, just like any of us; but this is the best example of the government creating conditions which restrict citizens from creating wealth and improving their own lives.

Alaska is the richest state in natural resources, (gold, oil, natural gas) and has the lowest population per square mile of any of the 50 states. I doubt that 1 in 10 residents are actually from Alsaka originally. I could be wrong, I’m doing this on the fly with no research, except watching the History Channel (Ice Road Truckers, etc)

The resources are hard to get to and the government has imposed environmental regulations which restrict the exploitation of these resources.

Had the government not imposed these regulations, the citizens of Alaska could be enjoying the benefits of jobs working the oil fields, pipelines and drill rigs, in addition to the support stucture, which require people to fill them, (you have to WANT to work in Alaska,) which increases the tax base, which fills the state tax coffers, which reduces the amount of money the federal government has to send back for improvements, which would have eliminated the need for Senator Stevens to make all those backroom deals, which would have negated the necessity of lying on a federal form.

Open ANWR, let the people of Alaska go to work supplying us with much needed domestic oil, which will decrease our imports of foreign oil. Its a win/win situation.

Will it happen? I don’t know, but it sure needs to happen.
Sooner than later.

On July 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm, Salt said:

I have noticed something noticeably absent from the comments here…

[[ ...putting on lgm disguise ]]
Well, if you think Sen. Stevens is bad, you should consider what Sen. Schumer(D) did two weeks ago to help crash IndyMac.
/lgm off

bleh. Now all I need is a heavy club and a bridge.

Point is, when a Senator with an “R” after his name is indicted, we urge him to step down or that the other Republicans purge him. No moral equivalency on what the other side does.

Hey! This is fun!

/lgm on

But Chris Dodd took favors from Countrywide Mortgage as a “Friend of Angelo” yet he still ironically heads the banking committee, and hasn’t seen a real investigation or inquiry to date!

/lgm off

Too bad for lgm that our examples are realistic.