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Yes, but were they GEISHA bobbleheads?

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UPDATED: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:35
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:15 AM

SHINY


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007
022302067.html


Normally, The Washington Post does not cover the legal woes of Pennsylvania state senators, but this indictment is simply too good to pass up...It's a bizarre account of the adventures of a millionaire pol whose over-the-top greed makes recently convicted ex-congressmen Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney seem like penny-ante pikers. If this indictment is accurate, Vincent J. Fumo is a man driven by a compulsion to get somebody else to pay for everything his heart desires, including the aforementioned tiki torches, gourmet paint, vacuum cleaners and bobblehead dolls.

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I don't need a gorram back-spaceship driver!!!

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:45 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Jeez, I hadda get 9, count 'em , 9 paragraphs inta the thing, past the obligatory " maybe he isn't guilty", paragraph, before I got to the critical phrase: " who is a Democrat."

Now I'm a liberal, and a Democrat, and that was the one thing I wanted to know. I don't doubt the charges, or even the facts, very much.

Does somewhat validate the claims of left wing bias in the media-- those 4 words, yepper, 4 words , shoulda been in paragraph 2

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:58 AM

ZOID



Not to get political in any way, but this just supports the argument I use in every political debate: Ours is a government by the rich people, for the rich people.

Go ahead and think you matter if you want to. Me? My illusions have long since evaporated like a morning dew. To me, saying you are a Democrat or a Republican only means you're one sort of delusional or the other.

It's all about the Pork, Payola and Perquisites, baby...



Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
Yes, I still vote. But in this past general election, I voted for every Libertarian candidate on the slate. Not that I'd consider myself a dyed-in-the-wool Libertarian... I just think if we're ever going to pull out of this democratic tailspin we've gotten ourselves into, then we need to have a strong 3rd party. The choices we've been given by the ruling major parties -- former drug abuser brain-damaged candidate vs. self-professed war criminal and traitor candidate -- is like a menu consisting solely of Sh*t Sandwich or Cr*p Pie. I'll have neither, thanks anyway. And I don't think my vote was wasted, either. The candidate I voted for may have had no chance of winning in that election; but if enough people voted as I did, then in some future election the government would have to provide a share of campaign funds and maybe even a seat at the nationally-televised debates. In that way, somebody would at least be present to raise topics that the two major parties don't want discussed, because they're both doing it, to the detriment of the people they are supposed to represent and protect... Abuses of power like those reported above.
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:35 PM

HIIAMJANET


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Yes, I still vote. But in this past general election, I voted for every Libertarian candidate on the slate. Not that I'd consider myself a dyed-in-the-wool Libertarian... I just think if we're ever going to pull out of this democratic tailspin we've gotten ourselves into, then we need to have a strong 3rd party. The choices we've been given by the ruling major parties -- former drug abuser brain-damaged candidate vs. self-professed war criminal and traitor candidate -- is like a menu consisting solely of Sh*t Sandwich or Cr*p Pie. I'll have neither, thanks anyway. And I don't think my vote was wasted, either. The candidate I voted for may have had no chance of winning in that election; but if enough people voted as I did, then in some future election the government would have to provide a share of campaign funds and maybe even a seat at the nationally-televised debates. In that way, somebody would at least be present to raise topics that the two major parties don't want discussed, because they're both doing it, to the detriment of the people they are supposed to represent and protect... Abuses of power like those reported above.



Damn straight! Governments have a purpose but once sight is lost of that purpose, well then... they get in a man's way.

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