Comments on: Finally, a New GOP Sex Scandal

By: Benedick

Benedick — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:05:17 +0000

@SanFranLefty: Actually he was American. Sounded young – 20s – and I would not have been at all surprised to learn that his boyfriend’s name is Derrick. Calling from DC. Or at least from their main number. I know because I called back. I used the word ‘shameful’ perhaps more than was entirely necessary. He sounded quite scared and assured me that our number would be removed. What puzzles me (though not that much) is why they would call us in the first place. The phone is in the OH’s name and we’re both registered Democrats. So what mailing list did they rent?

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:45:10 +0000

@Benedick: I can only imagine the phone call. Sounds like a comedy of the absurd. Some Indian guy in Bangalore named Mitesh affecting a Southern accent and 'meriken name to do a push-pull interview/fundraiser for the marriage bigots interviewing a ghey British king of the theatre.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:10:09 +0000

TJ/ We were getting robo-calls from NOM cleverly disguised as a ‘survey’. After my initial measured response of shrieking out the window I lurked till the next one came and went along with it promising, in the end, to donate money. So. Night before last I got a call from James (one of my people I suspect) asking for money and I let the poor sod have it. So now I’m off their calling list. I also called my state representative – try living in NY and saying that with a straight face – to bring this matter to his attention. So now I can rest easy. I have done my duty.

I also found home phone numbers to a couple of the board members for NOM but can’t bring myself to use them. It seems somehow… rude.

Anyway, pointless story to start my day. Oh yes, scandals. I suppose he gets points for risible hypocrisy but honestly I think this is one more indicator that the bottom has fallen out of the GOP. They can’t even put together a decent sex-scandal any more.

I’m counting the days till Bruno.

By: RZ

RZ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:32:04 +0000

@Pedonator: Plastic is gonna be the new black. Because incinerators in poor communities is too boring and depressing. And doesn't affect you.

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:32:44 +0000

@nojo: Are we not mortgaging the very air we breathe? Are we not being taxed by the corporations who spew noxious toxins into our air, water and soil without any credible risk analysis or plan for mitigation?

I freely choose to put certain toxins into my body, but what about the incredible stew of chemicals corporate giants have decided I will absorb into my tissues, simply because I am human and I must breathe and eat and drink?

Why do THEY get to decide which ingredients are put into the soup of the biosphere?

I guess that’s a rhetorical question.

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:20:53 +0000

@SanFranLefty: Exactly. And we all know it's un-American and certainly anti-Capitalist (and thus, anti-Democracy) to encourage and subsidize the indiscriminate breeding of ~~poor~~ rich people. (Is it not a hallmark of the Oligarchy to conflate economic and political systems in the hive-mind of the mainstream-media-pacified sheeple?)

By: nojo

nojo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:19:09 +0000

@SanFranLefty: That might be my cue to insert an excerpt from an "open letter" received tonight at Stinque HQ:

NOTE: The enclosed links and attachments provide the 'bibliography' and 'footnotes' for this commentary and include peer-reviewed authors and materials as well as government websites and resources. Approximately 30 pages of references with 90 pages in total.

Something to do with ideological extremists, "Keynesian-consumerist driven and government-controlled lifestyles," and "the very air you breath is now being taxed." Well, we've certainly been mortgaging it the past century and a half.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:10:38 +0000

@Pedonator: Taxes that support the illegal Messicans, to be precise.

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:03:13 +0000

@Original Andrew: What do ‘murrikins get riled up about these days anyways? Taxes of course!

By: Original Andrew

Original Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:57:10 +0000

@Promnight: Cum to think of it, the ho's at the Department of the Interior were having coke-fueled orgies with the oil and gas lobbyists and no one gave a shit. What do 'murrikins get riled up about these days anyways? (Other than two duudes or two laydees who wanna get hitched.)