The moral of the story: If you're busted for drunken driving, call your lawyer -- but first make sure he's sober. Former County Supervisor Patrick DePula, 34, apparently didn't follow that maxim this morning, and now his lawyer, Rick Petri, also faces a charge of drunken driving.
DePula was stopped about 11:45 p.m. in downtown Madison by Madison police. He was given a field sobriety test and was arrested at 12:07 a.m. today.
Petri was arrested at 2:46 a.m., when, Hanson said, "he came to pick (DePula) up." A source confirmed Petri had been arrested and had a blood-alcohol content of 0.09 percent, just slightly above the 0.08 percent considered for a charge of drunken driving.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The mayor, who said a quadruple slaying was shocking "even by Youngstown standards," has ordered aggressive police patrols to stem violent crime. "Every available officer will be in every available cruiser with specific instructions," Mayor Jay Williams said Tuesday.
The mayor said he had little sympathy for people who "put their lives on the edge" by being involved in illegal activities. He said officers would stop vehicles for even minor infractions such as failing to have rear bolts on license plates. The zero-tolerance policy will be reviewed after one month.
Three of the four victims found shot in the head in a boarded-up house Monday night had criminal records. Police said an ongoing feud may be the motive. "Even by Youngstown standards this is absolutely shocking," Williams said.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said. "You been doinkin' me wife! I quit!"
Alex Tourk, 39, who served as Newsom's deputy chief of staff before becoming his campaign manager in September, confronted the mayor after his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, told him of the affair as part of a rehabilitation program she had been undergoing for substance abuse, said the sources, who had direct knowledge of Wednesday's meeting. "Hi, honey! Feeling any better? Withdrawal not so bad, huh?"
"Y'know those underwear y'found in Hizzoner's drawer? They wuz mine."
At least she didn't go back to snorting heroin!
Rippey-Tourk, 34, was the mayor's appointments secretary from the start of his administration in 2004 until last spring. She told her husband that the affair with Newsom was short-lived and happened about a year and a half ago, while the mayor was undergoing a divorce from his then-wife, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified. "It was no big thing, honey. He wuz gettin' a divorce, after all. Who better to relieve the old hydraulic pressure than his secretary?"
Alex Tourk "confronted the mayor on the issue this afternoon, expressed his feeling about the situation in an honest and pointed way, and resigned," said one source close to Tourk and his wife. "[Punch!] I quit!" Tourk's resignation was announced in a statement that Newsom's campaign released Wednesday. The statement quoted Tourk as saying only that he was resigning for personal reasons. The statement quoted Newsom, 39, as saying he had accepted the resignation with great sadness. "Ow! I accept yer resignation, though it gives me great sadness!"
"Y'want some steak for that eye, yer honor?"
"I'm a vegetarian!"
"Well, then, put some of this tofu on it!"
"Is it organic?"
Asked at City Hall Wednesday evening about Tourk's resignation and the affair, Newsom said, "I'm not making any public comment. I'm just not." "I don't wanna talk about it!"
Tourk and Newsom have been friends for years and frequently socialized outside work. Tourk did not return phone calls Wednesday seeking comment. Rippey-Tourk, who now hosts a weekly radio show for Benefit Magazine in San Francisco, also did not return calls. A family friend who asked not to be identified said she would have no comment. "We don't wanna talk about it!"
Reports of the affair come at a particularly sensitive time for Newsom, who is embarking on his campaign for re-election in November. The mayor's personal life has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. In December, several witnesses at a late Friday night vigil for a mortally wounded police officer at San Francisco General Hospital reported that Newsom appeared to have been drinking when he arrived. A spokesman for the mayor declined to comment on those reports.
The controversy involving Tourk left Newsom's inner circle reeling. "I feel really bad for Alex," one adviser said. "He is blameless in this." Seems he was also the last to know, which usually seems to be the case.
After meeting with Tourk, Newsom maintained his public schedule, which included attending a reception for city commissioners and officiating over a marriage in his office. Privately, however, aides said the mayor was in shock over the meeting.
Polls have consistently shown Newsom's approval ratings among city voters topping 70 percent, unusually high for a politician in his fourth year in office. Although his relations with the Board of Supervisors have deteriorated over the past year, no competing candidate has emerged for this year's mayoral race.
One person who says he intends to challenge Newsom, former Supervisor Tony Hall, said Wednesday night that he hoped news of the affair was not true. But if it is, he said, "the city deserves much better than what it's getting." He's talking about San Francisco? Maybe he means the City by the Bay deserves more adventurous than a standard-issue adulterous affair, where all three participants appear to be live heterosexuals and none members of the animal kingdom. There's no mention of leather undergarments, of kitchen implements used as marital aids, or even of participation of more than the three principles. What's an affair in San Francisco these days without Esquimeaux, Jolly Green Giant Cream Corn and live chickens? A yawner, that's what it is!
Eric Jaye, Newsom's chief political adviser, said he was confident that any political damage to the mayor would soon dissipate. "We're counting on the public's short attention span. As soon's the black eye's gone, so's the memory."
"There will be a minor amount of turbulence, but as long as the mayor continues to do his job, it will have no lasting effect," Jaye said. "Ultimately, politicians are judged by how they do their jobs as elected officials." "Unless you get 'em on tape, naked, of course."
Newsom's predecessor as mayor, Willie Brown, said that "any time you have a scandal associated with sex and relationship, there is no way to predict how the public will react. In my own experience, you just have to be prepared to ride with the storm. You can't shut it down and stop it."
Newsom's chief City Hall rival, Supervisor Chris Daly, refused to speculate about how publicity over the affair would affect the mayor's career. "I think there's a lot of time to figure that out," he said. "Right now is not the time. I really think the day this hits the papers, the focus should be on the actual human lives involved."
Other critics of Newsom said the news spoke volumes about the mayor. Jack Davis, a political consultant who helped elect Brown and former Mayor Frank Jordan and was looking for someone to challenge Newsom, said, "There is nothing new in that story that I haven't been aware of for the last six months. Now that it's public and out there, Gavin ought to resign and seek psychiatric help."
Tourk worked as an aide to Brown before joining Newsom's first mayoral campaign in 2003. The next year, he became Newsom's deputy chief of staff and served as one of the mayor's key strategists.
He was instrumental in turning Newsom's idea of inviting homeless people to one location and providing them with myriad services into a reality. Almost 15,000 people have since received services during more than a dozen Project Homeless Connect days in San Francisco. In his resignation statement, Tourk said, "I am honored that, as deputy chief of staff, I helped create and implement key policy initiatives such as the Homeless Connect program that is now a national model for its compassionate and comprehensive approach to helping the homeless." "I do all that for him, and what do I get in return? He jumps me wife!"
Newsom's statement said Tourk "was instrumental in my first election, organizing a strong early re-election effort, and shaping successful policy during his service with the city and county of San Francisco. We all wish Alex well and know he will be successful in all of his future endeavors." "And the Little Woman can call on me for a reference any time!"
While running Newsom's re-election campaign, Tourk helped the mayor raise about $620,000 from supporters around the country. He has been paid about $50,000, Jaye said. "The campaign will move forward and will not be distracted by this," Jaye said.
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I don't believe San Franciscans care about this. They wouldn't be good leftists if they did.
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Just in case, I recommend that Mr. Tourk keep away from Hostess Twinkies™ for the foreseeable future. Lives may depend upon it.
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...Hizzoner seems to have a real weakness for the Ladies - his former main squeeze was Kimberly Guilfoyle of CNN and Court TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle )and that marriage only lasted a year.
Mike
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Eric gets my vote for 'understated snark of the week'!
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What's an affair in San Francisco these days without Esquimeaux, Jolly Green Giant Cream Corn and live chickens? A yawner, that's what it is! LMAO..
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Gavin Newsom is the last person any sane person would call a friend. His one main interest is his own hide, period. He is first an opportunist who will lie, cheat, or sell-out any interest and/or person to advance his career or to get votes.
Global warming! 'Super Tonio' lies behind another newborn in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.
As the picture clearly shows, Antonio Vasconcelos - he's the one at the back - is no ordinary new-born baby. Dubbed "Super Tonio", he startled staff at the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun, Mexico, not to mention his mother, by arriving via caesarean section on Monday weighing a whopping 6.6kg (14lb 8oz), roughly twice the average weight for a newborn baby.
Thank goodness it was a C-section, otherwise it would be like pushing out a gigantic watermelon.
Crowds have gathered at the windows of the hospital's nursery ward to marvel at Antonio, who is already 56cm (22in) long and drinks prodigious amounts of milk. "We haven't found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days," said Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director.
Antonio's parents, 23-year-old Teresa Alejandra Cruz and Luis Vasconcelos, 38, are remarkably unfazed, noting that their daughter had weighed a not-insignificant 5.2kg at birth. "It's good, because now with this one, we'll have a pair [of big babies]," Mr Vasconcelos said.
Despite Antonio's size, he is not the biggest baby born in recent years. In January 2005, a Brazilian baby arrived weighing 7.6kg. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby was a boy born to a healthy mother in Italy in September 1955 weighing 10.2kg. Said baby, Michaelo, moved to the USA as a teen along with his family, the Moorio, who then americanized their name... and the rest is History.
DHAKA - A policeman was killed and another injured in a bomb attack north of the Bangladesh capital, police said on Wednesday. We dont immediately know who the attackers are. We are investigating the incident, said a police officer at Gazipur, 40 kms (25 miles) north of Dhaka, where the attack took place.
Gee, officer, who do you think?
Police have arrested at least 30 suspected Islamist militants and seized large quantities explosives across the country over the past two weeks.
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PIERRE, S.D. The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured Dan Sutton, a Democrat from Flandreau, who admitted sharing a bed with a former legislative page last winter. The 32-2 vote came after three days of hearings before a special disciplinary committee last week and right after a vote to expel him failed. In separate testimony, Sutton and the former page, now 19, had told the panel they slept in the same bed in a Fort Pierre motel for two nights early last February. Last time I shared a bed with another fellow I didn't know all my ABCs.
Democratic Sen. Scott Heidepriem of Sioux Falls, vice chairman of the disciplinary committee, said most members of the committee favored censure over expulsion. "We believe that is the appropriate punishment for what it is we learned at the hearing," Heidepriem said on the Senate floor.
The chairman, state Sen. David Knudson, R-Sioux Falls, said his conclusion is that Sutton shared a bed with the page and initiated unwarranted sexual contact and should be expelled. "This is a deeply personal decision for all of us," Knudson said.
His motion to expel Sutton failed 14-20 in the 35-member body. Sutton, who was in the chamber for earlier votes, left when the debate over his future started. If he'd been a Publican, he'da been toast, of course.
Sutton, 36, was accused of sexually groping the young man last year while the two shared a room at the start of the youth's weeklong stint in the Legislature. The South Dakota attorney general and other law enforcement agents investigated the allegations and made no arrests. But the Senate committee accused Sutton of sexual misconduct.
Austin Wiese, now 19, testified that Sutton, a longtime personal and family friend, touched his genitals through his shorts as the two slept in a king-size bed. Sutton denied fondling the young man but acknowledged that he might have shifted in the bed and inadvertently touched him.
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Ahhhh, the ol' 'shifted in the bed' excuse! Coulda happened to anybody...
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Well if Mooslem Keith Ellision can do it... Actually I think Franken is going to have one fuvk of a time getting elected. His habit of physically beating people up is the kind of behavior that outstate Minnesotans don't cater much to. Basically Franken is a bully.
The husband of one of our staff used to run an underground newspaper when Franky was in high school. It would be interesting to read some of his childhood rants.
KARACHI - A group of Pakistani men has been accused of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village because one of her relatives eloped with a young woman from the mens family, police said on Wednesday. Such attacks are common in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, especially in backward, rural communities.
Police said the girls father had filed a complaint on Saturday in Ubaro town, 530 km (330 miles) from the city of Karachi, saying a group of 11 men had kidnapped his daughter, raped her and forced her to parade naked. The father told police the men were furious because the girls cousin had eloped with and married a young woman from their family.
So it was proper to rape the woman who wasn't involved with any of this? That doesn't make sense in any civilized country.
Some villagers have said the girl was raped and her clothes torn off, investigating police officer Aftab Farooqi told Reuters. They also claim she was forced to walk half naked in the village streets before some older woman covered her with a blanket, he said.
Rat bastards; hang the lot of them.
The girl is in hospital in Ubaro, police said.
Another senior police official, Mushtaq Khoso, said police had arrested four of the 11 men named in the complaint and police were awaiting a medical report to confirm the 16-year-old had been raped. Another police officer said certain influential people were pressing the girls father to drop his complaint.
And if they get the chance they'll kill the woman, unless her father does it for them over the 'shame' of it all.
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I would make a big stink and call for each of the 11 to be executed.
American researchers at Georgia Tech, investigating how fish hear underwater, have developed a sensor that can detect the sound objects make while moving through the water, and what direction it's coming from. This will enable submarines to "hear" other submarines, or surface ships, moving.
Fish use this acute sense of sound to detect prey, or predators. Submarines will use this ability in the same way, and for the same purpose. The new motion sensor is passive. It just listens, and does not give off any signals. The sensor has already been tested in a large indoor pool (25 by 34 feet, and 25 feet long).
Next comes testing in the open sea, and tweaking the sensor, and its software, to the point where it can be deployed on subs, ships and buoys (dropped from helicopters and aircraft.)
This will take a few years, at least. If the design of the new sensor, and its software, survive all the testing, and can be kept secret, the new technology will give American subs and ships a powerful edge in ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) for a decade or more (by which time most maritime nations will have figured out the technology and matched it.)
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In that our Los Angeles class submarines are rapidly becoming obsolete, I hope that when their time comes we retain one or more as "noisy", de-milled research vessels.
Such a boat, refitted for scientific purposes could do for underwater research what the Hubble telescope did for astronomy.
Alternatively, a different boat could perform an essential international task--either policing up or entombing hard radioactive or chemical contaminants that have been dumped at sea, but now threaten the fishing industry and coastlines.
In either case, it would be an incredible bargain assuming their typical annual operating cost of just $25 million.
That is very little money to either map undersea high grade mineral deposits worth potentially tens of trillions of dollars, or cleaning up chemical and radioactive waste that threatens entire nations fishing industries.
Yeah, but does it work on Grrrrlzzz? Just asking.
The lavender and tea tree oils found in some soaps, shampoos, hair gels and body lotions can produce enlarged breasts in boys, researchers reported today.
These plant oils were linked to abnormal breast development in three boys, which was reversed when they stopped using them, Dr Clifford Bloch of Pediatric Endocrine Associates in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and colleagues reported.
They said their study, published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, suggested these oils can act in ways similar to the hormone oestrogen.
"This report raises an issue of concern, since lavender oil and tea tree oil are sold over the counter in their 'pure' form and are present in an increasing number of commercial products, including shampoos, hair gels, soaps, and body lotions," the researchers wrote.
"Whether the oils elicit similar endocrine-disrupting effects in prepubertal girls, adolescent girls, or women is unknown."
While it is very common for boys to develop temporary breast enlargement as they go through puberty, the condition is very uncommon in young boys, Bloch's team wrote.
They found the problem in three otherwise healthy boys - ages four, seven and 10.
"I got wind of it because I was given a clue by a patient," Bloch said.
That case involved the four-year-old "who was using absolutely nothing on his skin except a lavender oil preparation that his mother had obtained from a homeopath.
She used to rub it on his chest and body every night" because lavender, in alternative medicine circles, is supposed to have healing properties.
Several months after the boy stopped getting the "healing balm," his breasts returned to normal.
Meanwhile, Bloch then began to see lavender crop up in other cases, including the 10-year-old, who was using a hair styling gel and shampoo that contained both lavender oil and tea tree oil, and the seven-year-old, who had been using lavender-scented soap and skin lotions.
In laboratory tests, scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina found that both substances can mimic the action of the female hormone oestrogen and block male hormones that control both masculine characteristics and inhibit the growth of breast tissue. Jokes apart, AFAIU, endoctrinian disruptors found in many, many modern day chemicals and foods are not a laughing matter. Just look at michael jackson.
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Damascus, (SANA)- A new air route will be opened soon this month between Tehran, Damascus and Caracas within a framework of the strong relations that tie Syria, Iran and Venezuela, Syrian daily newspaper of Tishreen said Thursday.
The new route will shorten distances and cancel some stops-over for the passengers in their journey from Syria or Iran to Venezuela.
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton will discuss the United States' priorities in the UN on Feb. 2 at 10:15 a.m. at Maxwell Auditorium. The event is open to the Syracuse University community on a first-come, first-serve basis.
After obtaining permission from Mitch Wallerstein, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, it was Professor Catherine Bertini who arranged for the ambassador to visit SU. She said she and her colleagues had been discussing possible guest speakers when someone suggested Bolton. "I met him over 30 years ago when I was working at the Republican National Committee," she said. She asked Bolton if he ever did campus speeches, to which he replied, "yes."
Bolton is an attorney who studied international areas for a long time, Bertini said. His political career involves work in both the Reagan and Bush administrations. "On campus, we should have a whole range of issues," she said.
During his career in politics, Bolton has proved to be a controversial figure and is considered to have conservative viewpoints. He is against arms control and was critical of the UN refusal to support the U.S. war in Iraq, said Professor of Practice Goodwin Cooke.
"Bolton is one of those Americans who feels the United Nations is a rat race that we should not concern ourselves with," Cooke said. During Bolton's tenure, the UN has been dealing with issues of reform - more specifically budgeting, payment, personnel and management. Bolton has been insisting very strongly on some of the details of these reforms, which has upset a few of his colleagues, Cooke said.
"Even though there will be many people there who are unhappy about it - I'm unhappy about it - I think it's a fine idea to have him come and talk to us," Cooke said. Despite opposing viewpoints, there are still students and faculty interested in hearing the ambassador speak. "It's a good opportunity," said Joanna Rivera, a freshman accounting major. "People have different opinions in politics, and it's good to hear all of them."
Greg Henderson, a freshman information technology major, agreed. "It's definitely good," he said. "I'm just not sure many people care."
Anyone who is unable to attend Bolton's speech will have the ability to watch it live on the Internet at maxwell.syr.edu.
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Wow! I'm actually shocked, but there may be some level-headed folks left at Syracuse. I think this approach (let's open up the floor to BOTH sides of the debate and let the public decide) is the ONLY thing many of us would ask for. There may be some hope left for some of these colleges, yet. Not "free speech for me, but not for thee."
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said Professor of Practice Goodwin Cooke
What the hell is a "Professor of Practice"?
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JRTS: your support for barbarian Islamofascists and the personal insults are bad enough, but when you start dissing the Classic CheesecakeTM on the pages of the Defender-Scimitar & Times-Picayune, well . . . that is simply beyond the pale! Beyond the pale, I say!
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More degrading that forcing people to do repetitive tasks and not think for themselves? More degrading than forcing half of your population into slavery? More degrading than having everyone else that thinks differently than you crushed under an Islamic heel?
Mmmm..... No. I'll take boobs any day over your hell.
sorry to break this to ya Butt Head but it is my duty and I have to;
Your Ass has metastasized and You STINK like Hell. But Butt Head if it's any consolation, it's really not your fault, you see it's your mother's Stank Ass genes that you inherited that makes you Stank so Bad!
Diagnosis: You Have Terminal Stank!
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Poor JRTS - must be a slow day at the DU (Delusional or Depression Underground). Either that, or his favorite goat Fatima is menstruating.
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Can we have a special section in the sinktrap for the professional trolls who visit, like Jizzing in the Blender, so we can read his wit?
(OK, so maybe I only wanted to get my own pet nym for him in the comments.....)
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#2 Spot, the faculty handbook at my university defines a Professor of the Practice as faculty who "shall have attained regional and national prominence and, when appropriate, international recognition of outstanding achievement."
It's listed at the very top of all the possible ranks (assistant, associate, full professor, etc.), so, it's the academic equivalent of a Field Marshal, I guess.
Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
David Pasztor, managing editor of the Texas Observer, confirmed her death.
The writer, who made a living poking fun at Texas politicians, whether they were in her home base of Austin or the White House, revealed in early 2006 that she was being treated for breast cancer for the third time. Ms. Ivins may have been on the other side of the fence politically, but times like this, it doesn't matter - I know all our sympathies and condolences go to her family.
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Synpathy to her family, but in my honest heart, I still feel the proper words are "good riddance to the lying shill" and God help her now that she is facing judgement for all her hateful actions.
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Sympathy to the family, and the loss of life is regrettable.
However, I placed Ivins in the same category as Michael Moore and Garrison Keillor; a dishonest, mean-spirited, envy driven, intellectually challenged jerk who was a pretend down-home person on the outside but a Northeast/West Coast moonbat leftist preacher on the inside. Essentially a (barely, to anyone with brains) stealth means of spreading the cultural Marxism meme to the heartland.
Sorry she's dead. Not sorry her evil voice won't be ripping my nation any more.
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Speak not ill of the dead.
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Mike, I understand your disdain for this "speaking" on one level. I, for one didn't "wish" her dead. But the truth is the truth.
I don't see a problem with acknowledging the human side of loss but being up front about the person's foibles, particularly if those foibles were as corrosive to our nation as hers were.
One can respect life generally without respecting everything any one individual does.
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Conflicting thoughts:
Judge not, lest ye be judged. (Who said that?)
On the other hand.... Too bad it wasn't sooner.
So send the ACLU a Christmas card in her honor.
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NMU: That wasn't directed at you, and sorry if you took it personal. I actually agree with pretty much everything in your last posting here. I was about to write something snarky, but I caught myself.
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I'd add "hate-filled" to the description but otherwise, it's spot on. She was one nasty piece of work.
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There's no more reason to avoid speaking ill of this particular dead person than there is to avoid speaking ill of someone like Joseph Stalin, or Pol Pot.
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Molly Ivins was no Michael Moore. Her columns had a liberal slant but she never pretended to be anything other than an opinion journalist.
In addition, although her work had a fair amount of snark, it never descended to anywhere near the bitter distorted bile of, say, Paul Krugman (of the NYTimes) or Eugene Robinson (of the WaPo).
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She used to be hysterically funny; I liked both her stuff and P.J. O'Rourke's alike, and thought they were different sides of the political spectrum, but the same kind of irreverent sensibility. Some of the essays in "Molly Ivens Can't Say That!" about Texas and the state legislature are pure classics, and about the best preparation there is for actually coming to Texas to live.
I think chemo, BDS and 9/11 just drained away all the open-hearted humor, leaving nothing but corrosive bitterness, which is not fun to read. Garrison Keiller has the same problem, but without chemo.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish I say. While I'd normally agree with you all, her shift to full-on BDS post-9/11 was astonishing. I used to take her with a grain of salt, but had lately wished her ill (o.k., I'm havin' my Jimmuh moment here and laying open my soul). May Jimmuh, Castro, Mugabe, Jong-Ill and ALL of their ilk follow her. Would go a long way to ridding this world of some truly evil persons.
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I wanted to make a snark about BDS being teminal, but I just don't have the heart. I don't wish death on moonbats, I wish that they repent and believe the Good News.
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Compared to leftist terror-beasts like Arkin or the editors of the NYT, Molly was practically a human being.
She once paid me a high compliment: "How can a smart guy like you be a conservative?"
RIP, Molly. It isn't your fault that your cause is now in the hands of devils.
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I've been praying hard for the death of liberal asshats in the media. I think if y'all joined me in these prayers, we would rid ourselves of these traitors. May I remind you that these liberals do not respect the lives of our soldiers, who are standing guard so we may live freely. So, why should I or any honorable man respect their pathetic existence ? I don't. Please, Lord, take more from our midst. Take more back-stabbing liberals.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The mayor, who said a quadruple slaying was shocking "even by Youngstown standards," has ordered aggressive police patrols to stem violent crime. "Every available officer will be in every available cruiser with specific instructions," Mayor Jay Williams said Tuesday.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said. 
Tourk's resignation was announced in a statement that Newsom's campaign released Wednesday. The statement quoted Tourk as saying only that he was resigning for personal reasons. The statement quoted Newsom, 39, as saying he had accepted the resignation with great sadness. 
DHAKA - A policeman was killed and another injured in a bomb attack north of the Bangladesh capital, police said on Wednesday. We dont immediately know who the attackers are. We are investigating the incident, said a police officer at Gazipur, 40 kms (25 miles) north of Dhaka, where the attack took place.
PIERRE, S.D. The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured Dan Sutton, a Democrat from Flandreau, who admitted sharing a bed with a former legislative page last winter. The 32-2 vote came after three days of hearings before a special disciplinary committee last week and right after a vote to expel him failed. In separate testimony, Sutton and the former page, now 19, had told the panel they slept in the same bed in a Fort Pierre motel for two nights early last February.
KARACHI - A group of Pakistani men has been accused of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village because one of her relatives eloped with a young woman from the mens family, police said on Wednesday. Such attacks are common in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, especially in backward, rural communities.
Damascus, (SANA)- A new air route will be opened soon this month between Tehran, Damascus and Caracas within a framework of the strong relations that tie Syria, Iran and Venezuela, Syrian daily newspaper of Tishreen said Thursday.
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