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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sheila Jackson Lee blames Bush for Fast and Furious
"This Fast and Furious debacle started under the Bush administration," Jackson Lee declared. "And it is been evidenced by various reports that it started under the ATL office in Arizona unbeknownst to leadership in Washington DC, at least leadership that came in under the Obama administration in this instance, Eric Holder."
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This idiot woman obviously wasn't told that (With)Holder had already walked back his accusation that Bush administration was involved.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 06/21/2012 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Jackson's position and statements as an elected official are simply a microcosm of a reparations focused sector of society. She and her coharts lash out at anything that may threaten their boodle or privilege.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2012 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  They certainly wouldn't have invoked executive privilege if they could have blamed Bush.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/21/2012 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Zenobia Lumplump1981 || 06/21/2012 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Pavlov's dog. It's clear the training works.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/21/2012 15:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Bush Derangement Syndrome can last a life time to these people

Nope. Just until the day Romney gets elected.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/21/2012 15:10 Comments || Top||

#7  What would they do without Bush?
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/21/2012 15:59 Comments || Top||

#8  I'd say at least 95% of what is said by the Donks is made up on the spot.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/21/2012 16:19 Comments || Top||

#9  "I'd say at least 95% of what is said by the Donks is made up on the spot."

And the other 10% is lies, John. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 06/21/2012 19:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Barbara must have been edumacated in the government schools.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/21/2012 19:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Jackson-Lee is not an idiot, uneducated, nor crazy. It's easy to dismiss her as just another politician. But without any sense of remorse she preys on the gullible for her own personal gain. Back in the day people of her caliber were simply called a Crooks.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 06/21/2012 20:47 Comments || Top||

#12  "Barbara must have been edumacated in the government schools."

Or the Donks lie and then some, Glenmore. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara || 06/21/2012 20:54 Comments || Top||

#13  "Jackson-Lee is not an idiot . . . nor crazy."

Are you sure, Depotguy?

Being a crazy idiot doesn't preclude being a crook as well.
Posted by: Barbara || 06/21/2012 20:58 Comments || Top||


Candidate For US Senate Faces Sex Charge
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate is charged with solicitation of a minor and his case has been bound over to a grand jury.

Authorities said the alleged incident occurred in May 2011, when a 7-year-old girl riding her bike in front of the Johnson City apartment of Thomas K. Owens was invited inside.

The 36-year-old then allegedly hugged the girl, unzipped his pants, and asked her to perform a sex act. The girl ran home and told her mother, who notified police.

Owens told investigators the girl had been in his apartment. As for the allegation, he stated: "I have a problem with that," but did not elaborate.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Owens should move to Texas and try this again. Should solve at least two immediate problems.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/21/2012 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems he already had a lot of the prerequisites for working as a member of Congress.
Posted by: gorb || 06/21/2012 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  To quote Will Rogers: "During rollcall, members of Congress aren't sure whether to say 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/21/2012 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Wow, didn't have to play guess that party.

Race, on the other hand.......

Anyone want to bet on this "person's" race being included if he was white?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/21/2012 10:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
From North Korea to Camden: staff at town hall told to address Labour councillor 'Dear Leader'
It is a term more commonly associated with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, but a Labour-run council in North London was forced to apologise today after staff were ordered to refer to its new head as “Dear Leader”.

The email was sent to all councillors at Camden Council by a junior administration worker.

The worker has been given a dressing down and told that Councillor Sarah Hayward does not need to be eulogised in such a manner, and that “plain old Sarah” will do.

The member of staff at Camden Council in north London, sent out a tersely-written email to staff after Miss Hayward took over as the new leader of the council last month.

The email, sent on June 12, stated: “Dear All - Any correspondence to Councillor Hayward should be addressed to her as 'Dear Leader’ or 'Leader’

“Please inform all your staff.”

The operation to keep the identity of the sender under wraps has all the hallmarks of an operation Kim Jong II would be proud of.

Cllr Hayward insisted she had “no knowledge” of the email at the time it was sent - and said she was quite happy being called Sarah.

She said: “It was nothing to do with me and I have no idea what prompted it. I am happy to be called plain old Sarah or anything really as long as it’s not offensive.

“I hope people are not treating it seriously. It was a well-intentioned mistake. I’m not going into any naming and shaming though.”

Posted by: || 06/21/2012 14:58 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A link would be nice. Here it is.

There is less here than meets the eye. The "Dear" part is the normal salutation in a letter. I cringe every time I write it, and avoid it when I can, but it's the custom.

The "Leader" bit is strange, though, unless it's some sort of Brit thing. What's wrong with "Councillor"?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 06/21/2012 21:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pelosi rips Holder contempt charges: 'I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day'
[Daily Caller] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
attacked House Republicans for pursuing contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder on Wednesday.

"I could have tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
Karl Rove on any given day," Pelosi said on Wednesday, The Huffington Post reports. "I'm not kidding. There's a prison here in the Capitol. If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
him."

"Oh, any number" of charges could have been brought against Rove, Pelosi said. "But there were some specific ones for his being in contempt of Congress."

Pelosi also criticized Republicans pushing for justice for Border Patrol agent Brian Terry -- as House oversight committee ranking Democratic member Rep. Elijah Cummings
...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious...
has on numerous occasions -- as "just strictly political."

"It's just the irresponsibility of the Republicans," Pelosi said. "We want jobs. Why are they spending this time doing this?"

Pelosi attacked House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa too. "'Loose cannon' would sort of be like such a compliment to Darrell Issa," Pelosi said. "'Loose cannon' would be a moderate phrase. This is an bomb. It doesn't serve our country, and it undermines the true purpose of contempt of Congress."
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Race card in 3... 2.... 1...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/21/2012 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting a bit desperate by the dems here.

Nancy Says "I ignored a crime in order to politically trade with the opposition party".

Talk about digging a hole deeper.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/21/2012 5:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone considered, due to self admission, as having compromised her own principles for personal gain; and the name commonly used to describe such a person is?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2012 6:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Pelosi rips Holder contempt charges: 'I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day'

Yep, COULD have, But DIDN'T, and that's the charge.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/21/2012 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  So what you are saying is that arresting Holder is ok.

Are they trying to be deliberately vague and baffling to hide the threats, or am I watching a person at a chess board who takes their king, diagonally jumps three of their own pieces, and yells yahtzee!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/21/2012 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Love the picture. I am fairly certain that is what her death mask will look like. Comparing Karl Rove, a mere aide, to someone who was appointed to such a powerful office is ludicrous. Like monkeys in the zoo, these people will continue to fling poo at everything that moves in order to prevent the masses from seeing that the emperor has no clothes.
Posted by: Past Master of the Obvious || 06/21/2012 9:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Pelosi always reminds me of the main character's mother in "Brazil" So utterly clueless and ignoring what happens around her.

The resembalance is uncanny too.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 06/21/2012 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  "Are they trying to be deliberately vague and baffling to hide the threats, or am I watching a person at a chess board who takes their king, diagonally jumps three of their own pieces, and yells yahtzee!"

Why yes. yes they are.
Posted by: newc || 06/21/2012 9:56 Comments || Top||

#9  The dems are in pure panic, reactionary mode. They just say what comes off the top of their head to defend themselves and don't think about what it means.

And thus they dig themselves a bigger hole.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/21/2012 10:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Is it my imagination or did this "person" just admit to being an extortionist?

"Give me what I want or you're going to jail!" Sounds like extortion to me.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/21/2012 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  delusional partisan b*tch. By what powers does she assume she can arrest a political advisor?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2012 10:58 Comments || Top||

#12  By what powers does she assume she can arrest a political advisor?

Why on "any number" of charges. That's what she says in the article. But you'll notice that she doesn't get specific. All she has are vague allegations that it's all Bush's fault. Damn it, I know the Republicans have screwed up too. That's no excuse.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/21/2012 11:19 Comments || Top||

#13 
By what powers does she assume she can arrest a political advisor?


Are you serious? Are you serious?!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/21/2012 12:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Talk is cheap, and so is Nancy.
Posted by: mojo || 06/21/2012 12:30 Comments || Top||

#15  'I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day'

Nancy, no one has been arrested. Now go have another drink.
Posted by: Fat Bob Dark Lord of the Gepids7701 || 06/21/2012 17:17 Comments || Top||

#16  My view of the current Washington crowd... Many of the pubs are not driven by the best of motives BUT TOO many Dems like Miss Nancy are BATSHIT CRAZY!
Posted by: Water Modem || 06/21/2012 18:46 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: junkiron || 06/21/2012 22:38 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2012-06-21
  29 Soldiers among 58 Dead in Violence across Syria
Wed 2012-06-20
  'Al-Qaeda militant' takes hostages at bank in Toulouse
Tue 2012-06-19
  IDF hits terror cell near Gaza fence
Mon 2012-06-18
  Nigeria: 21 killed, 100 wounded in church blasts
Sun 2012-06-17
  Baghdad bombs target Shiite pilgrims, 32 killed
Sat 2012-06-16
  Yemen army seizes Shuqra after Qaeda pullout
Fri 2012-06-15
  Syria Violence Kills More Than 60
Thu 2012-06-14
  Army takes over in Egypt
Wed 2012-06-13
  At Least 73 Dead in Shelling and Clashes across Syria
Tue 2012-06-12
  Helicopter Gunships Deployed as More Than 100 Dead in Syria
Mon 2012-06-11
  Church Bombing Kills 15 in Nigeria
Sun 2012-06-10
  Syria Army Kills 70 Civilians in Protest Cities
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  Tuareg Rebels, Islamists, Clash in Northern Mali
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  UN monitors shot at trying to get to Syria massacre
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