Those Wacky Republicans
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This Stivers guy is a real scumbag.
What I don't understand is how you, Ricter, FC...you'll all rail against corrupt and rabidly conservative Republicans, but you'll ignore all the corrupt politicians on the other side of the aisle (and there are just as many). Instead of seeing flaws in the system (lobbying, etc) you see flaws in only one side of the aisle while ignoring the other.
Selective reasoning?
Attorney For Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez Files To Have Corruption Case Moved From New Jersey To D.C.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Indicted U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez asked Monday to have his federal corruption case moved from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., arguing that virtually none of the 22 counts alleged occurred in the state.
Attorneys for Menendez and co-defendant Salomon Melgen filed the request in Newark. Abbe Lowell, Menendez's attorney, said during a court proceeding three weeks ago that he likely would file for a venue change. The government will have a chance to respond to the motion.
The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting gifts and donations totaling about $1 million from Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist, in exchange for political favors. The gifts included flights aboard a luxury jet and a Paris vacation.
In exchange, Menendez is alleged to have sought to advance Melgen's business interests, including intervening in a Medicare billing dispute worth millions of dollars.
Menendez has said he accepted gifts from Melgen because the two have been close friends for years.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Indicted U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez asked Monday to have his federal corruption case moved from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., arguing that virtually none of the 22 counts alleged occurred in the state.
Attorneys for Menendez and co-defendant Salomon Melgen filed the request in Newark. Abbe Lowell, Menendez's attorney, said during a court proceeding three weeks ago that he likely would file for a venue change. The government will have a chance to respond to the motion.
The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting gifts and donations totaling about $1 million from Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist, in exchange for political favors. The gifts included flights aboard a luxury jet and a Paris vacation.
In exchange, Menendez is alleged to have sought to advance Melgen's business interests, including intervening in a Medicare billing dispute worth millions of dollars.
Menendez has said he accepted gifts from Melgen because the two have been close friends for years.
One of Clubber's relatives.
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A South Carolina conservative who refused to sign up for Obamacare is going broke and blind – and he blames Obama.
Luis Lang learned in late February that he had suffered a series of mini-strokes that left him with bleeding in his eyes and a partially detached retina caused by diabetes, reported the Charlotte Observer.
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A South Carolina conservative who refused to sign up for Obamacare is going broke and blind – and he blames Obama.
Luis Lang learned in late February that he had suffered a series of mini-strokes that left him with bleeding in his eyes and a partially detached retina caused by diabetes, reported the Charlotte Observer.
Missouri House Speaker John Diehl resigning under fire over texts with intern
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article20986608.html
John Diehl on Thursday said he will resign as speaker of the Missouri House this week in the wake of a story published by The Star barely 24 hours earlier about texts replete with sexual innuendo between him and a college freshman in a Capitol internship.
(More at above url)
Check out earlier articles for the amusing content of the text messages.... he "wants to have her quivering".
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article20986608.html
John Diehl on Thursday said he will resign as speaker of the Missouri House this week in the wake of a story published by The Star barely 24 hours earlier about texts replete with sexual innuendo between him and a college freshman in a Capitol internship.
(More at above url)
Check out earlier articles for the amusing content of the text messages.... he "wants to have her quivering".
The South Carolina House held one of its longer debates of the year Thursday on a bill that some opponents said was pointless: a ban to prevent courts from enforcing foreign laws in the state.
Rep. Chip Limehouse proposed an amendment that replaced "Sharia law" with "foreign law" as the debate began. While the amendment passed, there was little doubt the point of the debate was to make sure laws based on the tenants of Islam never get a foothold in the state.
"You had people fighting harder than I have ever seen them fighting for anything for a fairly innocuous bill that says you can't use foreign law in a state court. What's so harmful with that?" said Limehouse, R-Charleston. "It protects the constitutional rights of our citizens. That's all it does."
Opponents, including some fellow Republicans, said the bill was useless and a waste of time. The state and U.S. constitutions would never allow any judge to consider foreign law, said Rep. Gary Clary, a former judge.
....Rep. Joe Neal suggested the bill was driven by a fear of Muslims by people without open minds or with fear of the unknown. He suggested the next bill taken up should ban the boogeyman.....
DB Pheonix...Scumbag
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
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John Rogers
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