I promised my next post would be shorter, and sure enough here we go. Just got some links and comments for ya.
First off, a short story for ya. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, boy proposes. Girl (actually fully grown woman with kids already) accepts. Boy (actually 37 year old man) goes psychotic, shoots girl in crotch. Boy and his parents (in their 70s) keep girl in garage and try to treat her medically to keep her from going to police. Also threaten her kids to keep them quiet. Eventually, police find out and take girl to hospital, arrest boy and his parents. Father sentenced to three years, mother given probation, boy sentenced to 20 years. But girl is still going to marry him.
Next, a little politics. What did I say about Alito? He apparently told the Reagan administration (in an application for promotion) that the constitution did not protect abortion, but now he's saying that was just to ingratiate himself to the administration. So basically, in order to get this promotion, he's saying he lied to get a promotion from the Reagan administration. Would you promote that guy?
Last, a little more politics. Bob Woodward - do gooder journalist who uncovered Watergate - has turned into yet another puppet of the conservative right. Now he has admitted that someone (he won't say who) in the Bush administration told him about Valerie Plame's identity a month before Bob Novak's article came out - but Woodward wrote about the issue and investigation anyway, without revelaing what that he had been given the information before that.
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“I love Christian today as deeply as I loved him before this awful thing happened to us,” Stebbins wrote in a victim impact statement. “We are soul mates.”
I had an ex-girlfriend throw various items and call late at night threatning to fuck the high school soccer team cause I broke up with her. I guess it wasn't meant to be, cause nothing says soul mates like gunshot wounds and forcible detention.
I've become rather familiar with the term "Shaudenfreude" lately... I think the next six months to a year are going to be very interesting.
Let's see...
The (recently former) Republican leader of the House, Bill Frist, is under investigation by the SEC for stock fraud, basically the same thing Martha Stewart went down for.
The (recently former) Republican leader of the senate, Tom Delay, has been indicted for campaign finance fraud.
In a related note, just today Michael Scanlon rolled over and agreed to testify against Jack Abramoff and anyone else in any future court hearings regarding this case. This is big. Nothing like a singing canary to get everyone else to cut deals.
There was the whole Scooter Libby indictment (BTW, have you heard about his badly written pedophile/bestiality porn novel yet?)
Patrick Fitzgerald just announced he's going to start up another grand jury so he can present more evidence (probably related to Woodward, but who knows?)
Bush's approval ratings, by anyone's measure, are around 36%, and drop further every time he opens his mouth.
Some Democrats are getting a backbone, finally.
The corporate media is increasingly becoming pissed off at the Bush administration, and refusing to carry their water for them.
Even Donald Rumsfeld is trying to distance himself from Bush and the war by shopping his conveniently classified memo around, essentially saying "I told Bush it wasn't a good idea, but he didn't listen."
This stuff really takes a long time to play itself out, but I'm starting to have faith that it will, and that a lot of people that have been running our country in bad faith will get their comeuppance.
Maybe I'm optimistic, and it's still sad that it's come to this, but I think there are far too many levels of corruption, and too many investigations going on. This house of cards has to fall down soon, although probably not as soon as I'd like.
Yes, hopefully these people will get what's coming to them. How unfortunate that it couldn't have come a year earlier.
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