Plundering the plumber’s records

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 31, 2008 10:19 AM


Photoshop: David Lunde

My syndicated column today spotlights the silence of the left-wing privacy champions who care more about protecting suspected terrorists than Barack Obama’s critics. Earlier this week, I contacted the national ACLU office in New York twice for comment about the raid of Joe The Plumber’s records. No reply. After my filing deadline passed, I received the following brief e-mail from the ACLU head in Ohio:

“You asked if we had a position. While the ACLU favors public access to government data, we also believe in individual privacy. Government employees shouldn’t be snooping through the files for information on individuals whether it’s for partisan purposes or to satisfy their own, or the media’s, curiosity. There should be clear written policies in place controlling when data can be accessed, and those policies should be enforced. What this demonstrates, though, is the danger of government control of vast amounts of personal data on each of us and how easily that data can be misused.”

Nice to know. Too bad it was like pulling teeth to get the ACLU to say so. No outraged national press releases. No public call for a federal investigation. And, uh, still no New York Times editorial decrying the domestic spying on Joe. You can read IBD’s editorial, though, right here.

Meanwhile, the Weekly Standard notes that Idaho Democrats have gone and published the Social Security numbers of GOP Rep. Bill Sali and his wife. The Democrats are blaming the victims.

It’s a chilling glimpse of the future. Happy Halloween.

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Plundering the plumber’s records
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees. The ACLU would demand the Big Brother snoopers’ heads. And Democrat leaders would convene immediate hearings and parade him around the Beltway as the new poster boy/victim of unlawful domestic spying.

But because peaceful American citizen Joe Wurzelbacher is an outspoken enemy of socialism, rather than an enemy of America, the defenders of privacy have responded to his plight with an impenetrable cone of silence.

After the last presidential debate, in which John McCain invoked Joe the Plumber’s anti-socialism shot heard ‘round the world, several taxpayer-subsidized employees in Ohio immediately rifled through government databases in search of damning information. The Columbus Dispatch identified Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, as one of the dirt-diggers. She also happens to be a Barack Obama supporter who contributed the maximum amount to his presidential campaign.

On Wednesday, Jones-Kelley admitted that the records checks on Joe that she approved were far more extensive than she first acknowledged. In addition to pawing through his child-support papers, the agency “also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes.”

Obama supporter Jones-Kelley argued that plumbing the plumber’s information was no big deal because the agency always checks up on citizens who come to public light. Democrat Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland quickly pooh-poohed the civil liberties infringements and denied any nefarious political motives.

If that doesn’t send a chill up your spine, maybe you don’t have a spine.

In addition to Jones-Kelley, investigators have uncovered at least three other suspicious uses of state computer systems to access Wurzelbacher’s data. A Toledo police clerk, Julie McConnell, has been charged with gross misconduct for accessing the Law Enforcement Automated Data System to retrieve Wurzelbacher’s address. She reportedly did it as a favor to a reporter. Authorities also say the Cuyahoga County social services office was compromised and an outside contractor with access to the state Attorney General’s test account similarly searched Joe’s data. Moreover, driver’s-license and vehicle-registration data about Wurzelbacher were obtained from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

I contacted the ACLU twice for comment this week about this rampant plundering of Joe the Plumber’s records. Like the Genesis song goes: No reply at all. (That was the same reply the ACLU gave me two months ago, when I asked if they had any reaction to the Chicago gangland tactics of a MoveOn spin-off group that announced it was trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with warning letters in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising.)

For the last seven years, these left-wing privacy champs have lobbied on behalf of foreign enemy combatants. The ACLU fought unsuccessfully to kill the Bush administration’s post-9/11 effort to monitor terrorist communications in the U.S. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today went ballistic over the government’s bank surveillance program to trace terrorist financing.

All those papers fumed earlier this year when State Department contractors illegally sifted through the passport files of Barack Obama (and Hillary Clinton and John McCain). Obama mouthpiece Bill Burton intoned after the passport scandal: “Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes.”

But when freelance members of the Obama Goon Squad take it upon themselves to do opposition research on The One’s citizen critics and rummage through government databases, where are all the privocrats when you need them? How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

Welcome to Barack Obama’s America.

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  1. #523229
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am, Bud Fox said:

    It’s like a dark curtain is coming down across America.

  2. #523232
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:31 am, flmom said:

    Bud Fox said:

    It’s like a dark curtain is coming down across America.

    Not on Michelle Malkins watch, God bless her.

  3. #523233
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:31 am, abstractmind said:

    Should we really not expect this sort of thing from them at this point? I mean seriously….this is their stock and trade. What would the democratic party be, if it were not hypocritcal?

  4. #523234
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:32 am, ITookTheRedPill said:
  5. #523237
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am, Insomniac said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am, Bud Fox said:
    It’s like a dark curtain is coming down across America.

    Dark curtain? RAAAAAAAAACIST!!!111!!!!!!

  6. #523238
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:34 am, JHSII said:

    As usual – the left actually does what they falsely accuse the right of doing.

  7. #523240
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:36 am, cicerokid said:

    Barack hussein’s America?

    When he pries it from our cold, dead fingers.

  8. #523241
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:36 am, tarpon said:

    Well, your library card is safe from Bush-Hitler-Burton, what more do you want.

  9. #523245
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:38 am, jangar said:

    There is no fear of the law anymore.

    Everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. In the past, this was always a precursor to judgement.

  10. #523247
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:40 am, madchef said:

    Meanwhile, the Weekly Standard notes that Idaho Democrats have gone and published the Social Security numbers of GOP Rep. Bill Sali and his wife. The Democrats are blaming the victims.

    Isn’t this identity theft? A persons SSN is one of their most valuable possesions, we carry it our whole life. It’s our numerical DNA.

  11. #523248
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:42 am, HappyGene said:

    It should be noted that the only reason the State Department flapadoodle went away was that the snooping was done by workers for an Obama supporter (advisor?).
    PS
    MM: Can I change my name if unspeakable things happen that make me SadGene on Tuesday?

  12. #523253
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:43 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

    Welcome to Barack Obama’s America.

    Dear Leader
    Nancy Pelosi
    Dingy Harry
    Feinstein, Boxer, Shumer, Kerry, Lisping Lizard Barney Frank-all of them as well as so much of the media, academia and Hollyweird are indeed Fascist. They are coming after us for what do do, what we believe what we might do. Terror for the sake of terror.
    State tax and IRS records? At first, but there are many ways for them to track us. First the Fairness Doctrine then the Purges.
    Bill Ayres “kill 25 million unrepentant capitalist” has not caught much traction in the Dear Leader enthralled press. It is not that they do not know of it but they do not think they will be next–the fools.

    Come the Night of the Long Knives I do not plan to go quietly.
    “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” –Joseph Stalin.

    That everyman be armed–you too lady. But first we vote and pray.

  13. #523260
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:49 am, Misscheryl said:

    Blantant disregard for anyone or anything that doesn’t subscribe to their way of thinking. They do it because they can.

  14. #523261
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:50 am, cabrerski said:

    I noticed in the Weekly Standard that the Dumbocrat chair takes “personal responsibility for the oversight”. Does that mean he pays the fine personally or goes to jail personally? It is always amazing to me that people who claim the “responsibility” never have to pay the dues.

  15. #523267
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am, Bud Fox said:

    Insomniac said:

    Bahhh! hahahahaaa!

  16. #523275
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am, Flyoverman said:

    How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

    I really expect to see the emergence of an underground economy. To protect themselves and their wealth people, especially those in non-city areas, will revert to a local economy based on handshakes, your word, and barter.

    This will all be designed to hide what you do and lower your reported income. For example, the local applicance store needs electrical work done. They pay for it with applicances, rugs, carpet, whatever. It is barter. No cash is exchanged, no receipts; untraceable.

    Just like ACORN registrations, it will be so common, so pervasive, it will overwhelm the regualtors, IRS, etc. 3% will get caught, but the other 97% will not. American ingenuity and a person’s good word will win out over socialists any day.

  17. #523281
    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:58 am, rblakeh said:

    It is not that they do not know of it but they do not think they will be next–the fools.

    When the Nazis came for the communists,
    I remained silent;
    I was not a communist.

    When they locked up the social democrats,
    I remained silent;
    I was not a social democrat.

    When they came for the trade unionists,
    I did not speak out;
    I was not a trade unionist.

    When they came for the Jews,
    I remained silent;
    I wasn’t a Jew.

    When they came for me,
    there was no one left to speak out.

    -Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller

    (Not comparing Obama to a Nazi, at least not in the sense that he supports a Holocaust on anything besides Liberty).

    Those making less than $300K… $250K… $150K… are fine supporting this guy, because it won’t affect them. What they don’t realize is Obama will be coming for them soon enough.

    The media happily does his bidding. What they don’t realize is that the first negative story they run when/if Obama is POTUS, Obama will be coming for them, too.

  18. #523294
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:03 am, travlinman said:

    Long live the 2nd Amendment. It is our only equalizer for the coming assault on our liberties. To think these ba$tard$ got up in arms over library cards and phone call monitoring to known terrorist sponsoring states and they see nothing wring with ‘digging’ dirt on an American citizen because he asks an honest question! What will it be with these hypocritical jerks in power. Arm yourselves children and buy plenty of ammo.

    Happy Halloween! It is kind of fitting for this holiday to fall just before the election. Satan is about to be loosed with his henchmen to wreak havoc on God’s children. :)

  19. #523296
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:05 am, wighttrasch said:

    checks up on citizens who come to public light

    All citizens but Obama, right?

  20. #523304
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am, txvet2 said:

    It’s interesting how many Democrat operatives have been engaged in the same type of activity that was so loudly and vehemently condemned when it was done by the Nixon campaign. The only difference is that those “plumbers” didn’t have the convenience of the internet, and the ability to access computer databases.

  21. #523306
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:11 am, WarEagle82 said:

    I lived in Russia for several years. I thought I left behind this kind of KGB-like behavior at the border. I see Obama and his minions have learned a great deal from their mentors….

    Welcome to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ameria. Your papers, please.

  22. #523311
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:12 am, WarEagle82 said:

    I thought of the Nixon/Plumber connection a few days ago and thought it was quite ironic. However, Nixon would never have engaged in the tactics Obama and his friends are using.

    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am, txvet2 said:
    It’s interesting how many Democrat operatives have been engaged in the same type of activity that was so loudly and vehemently condemned when it was done by the Nixon campaign. The only difference is that those “plumbers” didn’t have the convenience of the internet, and the ability to access computer databases.

  23. #523312
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:13 am, txvet2 said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 10:40 am, madchef said:

    It’s one of the most widely available pieces of information about you, which is why it was never intended to be used for ID in the first place.

  24. #523314
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:13 am, jegjr said:

    yesterday I ripped my lib buddy about the whole treatment that Joe the Plumber received by the Obama camp and lib MSM, his answer – “Joe the Plumber’s a Republican.”

  25. #523316
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:15 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    wighttrasch #19
    All citizens but Obama, right?

    HE WHO HAS COME is above reproach and shall not be examined, criticized or mocked.

    Enjoy Sharia
    Have a nice Jihad
    Buy your burkas ladies
    Herding goats while wearing
    a burka is liberating.

    HE WHO HAS COME is watching.

    BOO

    trick or treat
    smell my feet
    give me something good to eat
    and a brick of .223

  26. #523323
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:17 am, CantCureStupid said:

    This is not new… the Clintons notoriously (and often illegally) accessed public records and maintained dossiers on people who annoyed them or were a danger to their power structure. This is Democrat Intimidation 101.

    Why does this Jones-Kelly woman still have a job, by the way? Shouldn’t she be under indictment?

  27. #523324
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:18 am, KCK said:

    Way to go, Michelle.

    The dems are thugs who never cared to read a book about WW II and the brown shirts. Fascism will repeat itself if we don’t watch out.

  28. #523335
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:25 am, Misscheryl said:

    I apologize for any grammatical errors or misspelled words in advance:

    Excuse me but the left doesn’t play by the rules. Is that a surprise? Why do we constantly cry when they do exactly what they always do? While we are complaining, they are making more and more in-roads to destroy the conservatives in this nation. Crying when there is no one that really cares is not the smartest thing to do. We must start, on a grass roots level, to take this country back. Complaining that the Republicans aren’t representing us any one is old news. And the more we stand back all “aghast” and do nothing..the more in-roads the Liberals make. Enough is enough!

  29. #523340
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:26 am, DBNinKY said:

    How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

    That’s one question that will never dared be asked in President Obamapelosireid’s America.

    It’s gettin’ scary people – with only five days left `til the election, there are still some undecided voters whose choice may determine if our country descends into full-blown socialism or remains on a path of democracy, however compromised it may have been with the recent bailouts. And as desperate as these times are and as much as the remaining undecided voters need to be presented with the full picture of what an Obama presidency may look like, the MSM/LAT refuse to do it; they refuse to give them the facts they need to make an informed decision.

    Journalism and the MSM have forsaken their Constitutional duty to keep the public informed, during this election cycle, and have forever surrendered their credibility; they have failed American voters at a time of great need for information.

    Only President McCain can prevent the wholesale transformation of our government into “big-brother” socialism – which is what a President Obama would usher in – where no one would be safe from the investigative tentacles of government into their private lives and records, whether at the DMV or dept of social services, and where the media would render themselves lapdogs for a candidate by using a dissenter’s children to get dirt on the parents, such as what the NYT did to President McCain’ family.

    Undecided voters, the choice is yours!

  30. #523376
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:37 am, Regulus said:

    How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

    I wonder what the ‘Vegas odds are on Michelle getting audited by the IRS within the first year of a Hopenchange presidency?

    Better than even, I’d wager.

  31. #523386
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:40 am, pueblo1032 said:

    Dismissed as no BIG DEAL by the GOV??? I guess it is only a big deal if you are a foreign national, in this country, and making or receiving calls from KNOWN TERRORISTS or from countries known to support TERRORISM… Your PRIVACY is being invaded… But no INVASION OF PRIVACY on a PRIVATE CITIZEN, whose only CRIME was to ask a QUESTION…

  32. #523395
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:44 am, sambo said:

    How safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

    Michelle, Michelle,Michelle. There will be to tax or IRS records because everyone will be receiving their paycheck from the government!

  33. #523403
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am, puhiawa said:
  34. #523410
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:49 am, Klaatu said:

    I previously posted this comment in the wrong thread… sorry! But I would like an answer.

    I didn’t watch the infomercial. But, I heard that he made the scariest comment yet. So scary, that if he actually made it, that is all that should be on the news from now until election day.

    Paraphrasing:

    what we need to protect us from terrorists is a national civilian police force, as well equipped and funded as the military.

    I know there are German speakers on this forum, so am I spelling Gestapo correctly?

    Was this actually in the infomercial or not?

  35. #523414
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:50 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Conservatives believe in the “rule of law.” Leftists believe in “power.”

    Conservatives believe the state is inherently oppressive and thus should be limited in power and size.

    Leftists believe the state is all powerful and must grow to exert its influence over all aspects of life of the people (by which they mean serfs).

  36. #523419
    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:52 am, love2rumba said:

    The Left, with respect to privacy, were of the same mindset in the ’90s when it was violations of gunowner’s rights, of which the most notorious life-ending examples were that of Randy Weaver and Branch Davidians cases-the left not only did not care, many of them had a “they had it coming attitude”-and you betta obey mentality.

    It was these perverse attitudes that angered so many Americans, that Democrats were taken out in 1994 (an opportunity of which the Republicans started squandering almost as soon as they got in )

  37. #523446
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm, John Ansell said:

    Isn’t this identity theft? A persons SSN is one of their most valuable possesions, we carry it our whole life. It’s our numerical DNA.

    it’s called a path to citizenship here in L.A.

  38. #523457
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:02 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:49 am, Klaatu said:
    I previously posted this comment in the wrong thread… sorry! But I would like an answer.

    I answered/commented on this on the other post. It’s rather lengthy, so I don’t think folks want me posting it again. If yo want to go back to the Obaween thread you will see it.

  39. #523462
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:04 pm, RedDog said:

    This goes to show you that all state and federal government offices are riddled with partisan socialist apparatchiks happy to flout the law, on the public dime, to the benefit of their latest socialist home boy. In this case, Barry Obama.

    One more reason to openly mock the ACLU and the other entitlement pimps whenever they cry out for “justice”. Justice for me but not for thee….

  40. #523464
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:04 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Let’s start betting on how many weeks will elapse after BHO’s inauguration before he announces a list of books to be burned. Or a bet on when he tells us which Constitutional Amendments are invalid? Emergency ‘aid’ to Cuba? My mind runs wild and my stomach doth protest.

    Is the liberty and democracy we have enjoyed for over 250 years actually SO fragile that we might really see it all go down the toilet as the result of only two bad elections, 2006 and now?

    GIVE NOW! –>> goptrust.org

  41. #523468
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    The installation of Obama may be the least of our worries if he decides not to relinquish power after his term.

    Where will we be then?

  42. #523479
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Meanwhile, the Weekly Standard notes that Idaho Democrats have gone and published the Social Security numbers of GOP Rep. Bill Sali and his wife.

    Thank you Michelle for show this blog that this type of disregard for privacy can happen in a very red state like Idaho. If it can occur here folks, it will happen everywhere.

  43. #523488
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:12 pm, flmom said:

    GIVE NOW! –>> goptrust.org

    I gave yesterday, I hear they are going to be running a lot of ads this week-end, let’s hope it works.

  44. #523489
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:12 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:49 am, Klaatu said:
    I know there are German speakers on this forum, so am I spelling Gestapo correctly?

    Yes. It is an “Acronym in German for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police). The Nazis established the Gestapo in order to monitor and stamp out any political opposition to the Hitler regime. Under Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo’s powers became brutal and far-reaching in ferreting out Jews, Marxists, and even moderate critics of the regime.” (Courtesy of http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/more_resources.asp)

    ECS

  45. #523501
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pm, greenfairie said:

    It’s chilling that a state as a matter of course digs into any private citizen who “ends up in the spotlight.” Post on an internet board? A YouTube video? Oops, that makes you a public figure, time to dig through the muck.

    I’m in the position to look through such things at my job, but I also had to sign a stack of paperwork promising I will not run searches on anything not related to my job. I will NEVER run searches or raps if it’s not in preparation for a trial, no matter who asks me.

  46. #523505
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:23 pm, Klaatu said:

    Thank you Flyoverman and Elm Creek Smith. This will make this the scariest Halloween I can remember.

  47. #523541
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:48 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Klaatu #46
    This will make this the scariest Halloween I can remember.

    Well put.

  48. #523554
    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:53 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:23 pm, Klaatu said:
    Thank you Flyoverman and Elm Creek Smith. This will make this the scariest Halloween I can remember.

    Hey, in the end the bad guys lost. Never underestimate the ability of people to make themselves free of oppression, especially Americans.

    This election os FAR from over for Obama. McCain just puled even in NC and MO. Obama who was supposed to hit battleground states is coming to IA, where he in theory is 10+ points up. Why go there now for 7 electoral votes that in theory are in the bag?

  49. #523561
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:02 pm, emjem24 said:

    What happened to Joe the Plumber is what happens to any American who raises questions of the media’s political darling. Joe the Plumber has a right to privacy like anybody else. Helen Jones-Kelley should be ashamed of herself but since liberals know no shame she’ll just say she was within her rights to dig up dirt on Joe.

  50. #523571
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm, iamsaved said:

    Government databases contain information of all sorts on pretty much everyone in the country. Many people, particularly government employees, have access to this information. If you believe they are as pure as the driven snow and only use it for official business, you better think again. There are many who, mostly out of boredom and sheer curiousity, routinely look up tidbits of information on all kinds of people.Sometimes the information is passed on to those who shouldn’t be in the know.

    As Michele’s article points out, the liberals are more worried about the government listening in on cell phone conversations of potential terrorists who may harm our country then they are in the invasion of privacy of regular citizens who only ask a candidate a simple question.

    Friends, in addition to those government databases, we should be more worried about sites like Google that are collecting data on you far more than you realize.

    Just wait until they start putting medical records on line. Do you think your information will be private then? If the Obama campaign is any indication, there will be political data mining going on trying to dig up dirt in order to discredit their detractors. You ain’t seen nothing yet!

  51. #523580
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:15 pm, sonofdy said:

    WAY WAY WAY off topic but good news!!!

    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    YAY!!!

  52. #523581
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm, rambler said:

    I sent nastygrams to both my moronic senators and was audited by my state. So I stopped emailing them.

  53. #523584
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm, flmom said:

    Sonofdy
    Double congratulations!!
    You’ll get double the love and double the fun, and yes, double the work.

  54. #523586
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm, sonofdy said:

    I sent a nasty gram to my senator while I was in bosnia and got my citizenship. (finally)

  55. #523588
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Congratulations sonofdy. You are blessed!

  56. #523589
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm, sambo said:

    sonofdy said:
    WAY WAY WAY off topic but good news!!!

    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    Congrats Sonofdy! Just in time to get the extra care…remember Obama will come to your house and make sure your kids are getting the right nutrition and reading the right books, ect.

    Congrats!

  57. #523592
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:21 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    if the press had only done its job and investigated dear leader a year ago, he wouldn’t have passed through to the position he is in….he couldn’t pass the background investigation for a military TS clearance…he shouldn’t be where he is except for the press giving him a free pass while they fry the average citizen…you can bet that most of the press have sorted backgrounds as well..

  58. #523595
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    if the press had only done its job and investigated dear leader a year ago, he wouldn’t have passed through to the position he is in….he couldn’t pass the background investigation for a military TS clearance…he shouldn’t be where he is except for the press giving him a free pass while they fry the average citizen…you can bet that most of the press have sorted backgrounds as well..

    MM excepted of course!!!!

  59. #523596
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm, sonofdy said:

    Sorry had to share, You should have seen my wifes face when they said there were 2 heartbeats. Besides we all need a bit of good news!!!

    (send diapiers, many many many many many diapiers)

  60. #523600
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:24 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Obama will come to your house and make sure your kids are getting the right nutrition and reading the right books, ect.

    Obama may send you an Encouragement card since you and your wife are being “punished” twice.

    Or he may take one of your twins and “spread the wealth” of children to a childless couple. Oh our Benevolent Leader.

    Too bad his world is going to blow up in his face Tuesday night. :)

  61. #523604
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:25 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Oh the pitter patter of little carbon footprints! :)

    Diapers indeed.

  62. #523609
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm, flmom said:

    sonofdy said:

    (send diapiers, many many many many many diapiers)

    Maybe you could send a couple to Waterspout, he’ll need them after Tuesday.

  63. #523615
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Sonofdy – WOW!!! Excellent.

  64. #523625
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:42 pm, iamsaved said:

    Patriotism still exists in many of the schools that the Joe the Plumbers and the Tito the Contruction Workers children attend. It’s vanishing quickly on the two Left Coasts and liberal bastions where they are against the war but support the troops sort of patriotism.

    Here is a combined chorus of elementary thru high school students singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

    They haven’t kicked God out of their schools yet.

  65. #523631
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:44 pm, iamsaved said:

    Congratulations Sonofdy: Save a little more because if you use disposable diapers, your carbon tax will be going up shortly.

  66. #523644
    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:51 pm, CantCureStupid said:

    SONOFDY!!!!

    Many congratulations to you and your wife!!! :)

  67. #523665
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:05 pm, sbw999 said:

    Some don’t want to compare the present day dems to pre-WW2 Nazi’s. Why not? The Dems are coming to almost total (filibuster proof) political power through insidious demagoguery, viscious character assasination and a propaganda campaign like none I’ve ever seen. They are doing this with the aiding and abetting of an unashamed, corrupt and one-sided press acting as pitbull democrat operatives to attack and destroy anybody opposing the fearless leader. They are appealing to an electorate with promises of financial betterment and healing; while their cure is for a gargantuan government controlling our lives, that will just eventually kill the patient. I see many similarities bewteen pre-WW2 Nazi’s and Dems of the day.

  68. #523705
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:20 pm, right4life said:

    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    YAY!!!

    Congrats, children are a blessing!

    no matter what the new bi-racial messiah says…

  69. #523728
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:26 pm, corona said:

    can’t connect to the Weekly Standard page

  70. #523733
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Uh, sonofdy, I think a baby uses 13 diapers average per day so that means 182 diapers per week or 9,464 per year. And it takes at least 2 minutes to change a diaper properly so that is 18,928 minutes or 315.47 hours per year.

    Since there are only 24 hours in a day you had better get started! You need to reduce that time down by at least 33%.

    Oh, and Obama will appoint Cheryl Crow as EPA administrator and she will ban disposables and ration TP to one square a day. Stock up NOW!!!!

    Congrats!

  71. #523741
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:31 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I wonder how you say “Ermächtigungsgesetz” in Swahili?

    When “The One” appoints Odinga as his Head of Civilian Security Forces I guess we will all learn.

  72. #523745
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:32 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Sonofdy
    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    Congratulations Pops!

  73. #523750
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:35 pm, rightside said:

    Let’s see if the ACLU offers to represent JTP pro bono, to sue the pants off of Ohio govt.

    *snort* You won’t need a calculator to figure out those odds.

  74. #523792
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:54 pm, Dimsdale said:

    If that doesn’t send a chill up your spine, maybe you don’t have a spine.

    Then you would be a Democrat, by definition!

  75. #523800
    On October 31st, 2008 at 2:56 pm, Dimsdale said:

    The ACLU had no comment on the Kelo decision either (the gov’t taking private property and selling it to private companies because the gov’t can get more tax revenue from said business).

    Tell me that isn’t a view of things to come.

  76. #523822
    On October 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm, Cosmo said:

    Bill Sali is my congressman, and Walt Minnick–his challenger–is full of crap.

    I’m sure if you follow Minnick’s money trail, it leads right to George Soros’s commode. This is just another example of the “we’ll do anything to destroy the opponent, whether legal or not” Idaho Democratic party.

    They’re probably just tired of getting their a$$es handed to them everywhere except in the granola Hyde Park/downtown Boise area.

    This is the result of Democrats + frustration + desperation.

  77. #523825
    On October 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm, Papa Louie said:

    iamsaved said:

    Congratulations Sonofdy: Save a little more because if you use disposable diapers, your carbon tax will be going up shortly.

    Don’t worry about it, Sonofdy. A British study showed that disposable diapers are no less green than cloth diapers. You will save water, power, and time by using disposables.

    After a three-year, 200,000-pound (about $360,000) study, the London-based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.

  78. #523922
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:14 pm, rpg1616 said:

    Does anyone have an update on the Obama Nation author who was detained in Kenya right before he was supposed to give a major press conference? Did they “get to him”?

  79. #523945
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:26 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    this should make you all feel so secure…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

  80. #523950
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:27 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Congrats, Sonofdy!!!

    Find a reliable baby-sitter so you and your wife can have one ‘date night’ per week for a couple of hours of just the two of you. This is an important sanity-preservation measure.

  81. #523952
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:30 pm, sonofdy said:

    Dexter, good advice. For some reason, i am not consentrating well at work today.

  82. #523975
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    As usual – the left actually does what they falsely accuse the right of doing.

    The technical term for it is “projection”, and liberals are masters at it.

    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    Woo hoo! Babies rock and as the daughter of an identical twin, two babies rock harder!

    E-mail me. I’d like to send you a gift, if you’re okay with that.

    Time together is so important, I second Dexter.

    Also, a SCHEDULE! Especially for things like housework that can sneak up on you.

    God bless and keep us posted.

  83. #523979
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:44 pm, nlebou said:

    sonofdy

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

  84. #523988
    On October 31st, 2008 at 4:55 pm, sonofdy said:

    E-mail me. I’d like to send you a gift, if you’re okay with that.

    Are you kidding? With twins all my expenses just doubled.

    Thanks…

  85. #523998
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:02 pm, abstractmind said:

    Good to see our liberal friends posted their disagreement and disdain at the records of a private individual being gone over like this…….

    err…wait….

    nevermind.

    ;)

  86. #524008
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:15 pm, sonofdy said:
    WAY WAY WAY off topic but good news!!!

    My wife is pregnant, with twins!!!

    YAY!!!

    Congratulations, sonofdy!!!

    Can’t wait until I am able to share news like this with my husband!

    All the best.

  87. #524012
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm, sonofdy said:

    Sorry had to share, You should have seen my wifes face when they said there were 2 heartbeats. Besides we all need a bit of good news!!!

    (send diapiers, many many many many many diapiers)

    congrats….double your pleasure, double your fun…I had four just not at once…lol

  88. #524071
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:56 pm, b-cat said:

    Congradulations, sonofdy!!!

  89. #524072
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:56 pm, Mulligan said:

    sonofdy, congratulations on the twins, and also on becoming a citizen!

  90. #524073
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm, sonofdy said:

    (send diapiers, many many many many many diapiers)

    Congratulations sir! However, allow me to also express regret, as we will all miss you terribly in the comments section, your being otherwise too parentally occupied for the next few years…

  91. #524075
    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:59 pm, Mulligan said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 11:03 am, travlinman said:

    Happy Halloween! It is kind of fitting for this holiday to fall just before the election. Satan is about to be loosed with his henchmen to wreak havoc on God’s children. :)

    Maybe it’s just me, but the sight of a smiley face after that sentence just cracks me up. Thanks for the laugh.

  92. #524079
    On October 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pm, nlebou said:

    Corey the Well Driller was just on FOX. I hope he doesn’t owe child support or back taxes.

  93. #524085
    On October 31st, 2008 at 6:05 pm, b-cat said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pm, FilmLadd said:
    Congratulations sir! However, allow me to also express regret, as we will all miss you terribly in the comments section, your being otherwise too parentally occupied for the next few years…

    Don’t go away, sonofdy! I enjoy you’re posts too much.

  94. #524122
    On October 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pm, cicerokid said:

    sonofdy said:”(send diapiers, many many many many many diapiers)”

    Change we can believe in!

  95. #524126
    On October 31st, 2008 at 7:14 pm, cicerokid said:

    On October 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pm, greenfairie said:
    It’s chilling that a state as a matter of course digs into any private citizen who “ends up in the spotlight.”

    More reason to remain under the radar.

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