This Should be Getting Lots More Attention
 

"mensch"

GOP family values
 

I might agree if he wasn't her youth pastor. Based only on what was in the link, even if she was 17, he was in a position of authority over her.

ETA: Yet further evidence that one should strongly discount the political views of anyone whose profession is "youth pastor."

This Should be Getting Lots More Attention
 

in a PM one morning, after one night when you were working late, Atticus said the term was cornudo, but that's just hearsay.

GOP family values
 

do you think they'll give him a library once he's left office?

GOP family values
 

Why would a "youth" pastor be in a position of authority over her. She's 17. To paraphrase my cousin Vinny, she aint exactly a "youte"

Old Europe forgets what Old Europe Really Did...
 

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1102432932687

This is non-immigrants. Kerry wanted to partner with these guys. Happy Hanukkah!

GOP family values
 

Heh. That thing reminds me of an e-mail I got in the mid to late '90s - one of those "everyone the Clintons know SUSPICIOUSLY DIES!!!" things: they murdered Vince Foster, some secretary who had access to Hill's billing records, Jesus, whomever, and you know it's true because Bill/Hill KNEW all of these people, and then they DIED. 'Cause people never die unless it's because of some rich guy's evil plan, of course.

Anyhow, I responded (to the entire group of recipients), demonstrating that I was at the center of a secret evil cabal because various people I knew died sometime after they either (i) did some favor for me or (ii) pissed me off. (Since most people I meet at some point either do something nice or something mean, and everyone eventually dies, that meant there were a lot of people.) Ergo, I was in the center of a mass conspiracy and willing to bump people off to keep my secrets & execute my petty revenge.

I actually, apparently, got the Repub. sender of the original MS to admit, when I put it like that, that the conspiracy thing was pretty stupid. Marks what may be the only time I've ever changed someone's mind in political debate.

GOP family values
 

Spoken like a godless heathen.

"Youth" ministers in almost every church are the head of programs for middle and high school congregation members. Depending on the church and the minister, they can hold a lot of influence over their charges, even the 17 year olds.

This is almost exactly the same as, but perhaps slightly more reprehensible than (if it's possible) a high school teacher having a sexual relationship with a student.

Stop trying to defend the guy. It makes you look slimey.

GOP family values
 

I proved to Fluffer that more than 1 PT boat sunk in WWII

Old Europe forgets what Old Europe Really Did...
 

Is Western Europe even part of the Western world these days? Seems to me they line up more closely with the ME than with the US, UK and Eastern Europe (minus Russia).

Lieberman for DCI
 

He's on the shortlist. Think he'll take it if offered?

GOP family values
 

And let me just say, you were the shit.

Lieberman for DCI
 

If Bush is willing to give that job to Lieberman, does it not prove that this intelligence reform bill is a joke?

Lieberman for DCI
 

Why? Lieberman has lined up with the Bush Admin on the WOT/Iraq. Or are you saying that because he has no CIA experience?

And why do you think it's a joke? I may agree with you, but I'm curious. The 9/11 commission, which apparently speaks the gosphel, has backed it, as have a majority of both parties in congress.

Lieberman for DCI
 

I don't know that it's a joke, but given Bush's propensity, especially of late, to appoint people who are loyal to him and who will know when to keep their mouths shut, it's hard for me to see him appointing a Dem senator and former vice presidential candidate to the job unless it is a job of absolutely no consequence whatsoever.

I don't think I know enough about the bill to say one way or the other, but Fred Kaplan says the new job will be a "toothless figurehead" and I haven't seen anything else refuting his view.