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Big Blue Owl
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"Obama Acceptance Speech" Virus
Read up and be forewarned:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp
Read up and be forewarned:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp
Don't start none...won't be none.
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Big Blue Owl
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Heheh, I just made up the first headline, but O.J. really did get sentenced 
Do you think Gene'll actually get paid for the rash of "O.J." that's been unleashed again? If so....GENIUS! I want to own the name Sarah Palin if that's true. I can wait to be a billionaire for 4 years
Do you think Gene'll actually get paid for the rash of "O.J." that's been unleashed again? If so....GENIUS! I want to own the name Sarah Palin if that's true. I can wait to be a billionaire for 4 years
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LOL Then you'll really appreciate her, eh? hehehehehehe Buy now, Owlie!Big Blue Owl wrote:Heheh, I just made up the first headline, but O.J. really did get sentenced
Do you think he'll actually get paid for the rash of "O.J." that's been unleashed again? If so....GENIUS! I want to own the name Sarah Palin if that's true. I can wait to be a billionaire for 4 years
Onward and Upward!
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Ill. Gov. arrested in Obama successor probe
CHICAGO ? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested today on charges that accuse him of trying to benefit from his ability to appoint President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. Attorney in Chicago says federal investigators bugged Blagojevich's campaign offices and placed a tap on his home phone. At a news conference on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the corruption charges represent "a truly new low."
An FBI affidavit says the 51-year-old Democrat was intercepted on wiretaps conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife.
FBI chief Robert Grant says even seasoned investigators were stunned by what they heard on those tapes.
Fitzgerald described the situation by saying: "We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it."
The governor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
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Wow, what an unprecedented piece of crap.
CHICAGO ? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested today on charges that accuse him of trying to benefit from his ability to appoint President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. Attorney in Chicago says federal investigators bugged Blagojevich's campaign offices and placed a tap on his home phone. At a news conference on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the corruption charges represent "a truly new low."
An FBI affidavit says the 51-year-old Democrat was intercepted on wiretaps conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife.
FBI chief Robert Grant says even seasoned investigators were stunned by what they heard on those tapes.
Fitzgerald described the situation by saying: "We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it."
The governor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
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Wow, what an unprecedented piece of crap.
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The Culture of Corruption
by Michelle Malkin
Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three
years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused
Republicans of making "their culture of corruption the norm." Pelosi
touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue. But with the eye-popping pay-for-
play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption
chickens are coming home to roost.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the breadth and depth of charges
against Blagojevich and his Democratic Chief of Staff John
Harris "staggering."
That's an understatement.
Anything that breathed was a potential shakedown target. It's the
Chicago way. Democrat Blago's so dirty he'd hit up a children's hospital
for money.
Oh, wait. He's accused of doing that, too.
Democrat Blago allegedly conspired to use his power to appoint President-
elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat as a bargaining chip for
financial payment. He explored trading on that authority for an
appointment as Health and Human Services secretary or as an
ambassador or for installment in a cushy union position. (He discussed
his trading scheme with an unnamed "SEIU (Service Employees
International Union) official" and unnamed "various consultants" in
Washington.)
According to the criminal complaint released yesterday, he also tried to
leverage his influence over the sale of Wrigley Field (owned by Tribune
media company) in an attempt to get Chicago Tribune editorial writers
who called for his impeachment fired -- which illustrates the very perils of
media/government entanglements I warned about in my newspaper
bailout column last week.
His wife, Patricia Blagojevich, was apparently in on the thuggery, too.
Taking a break from her first lady duties advocating "on behalf of women
and children," she is heard in taped discussions about the
ChicagoTribune/Wrigley Field deal telling a governor's aide to
"Hold up that f**king Cubs sh*t. ? F**k them."
Pelosi, champion of women as political cleaner-uppers, was unavailable
for comment.
Fitzgerald says President-elect Obama was not implicated in the plethora
of charges against Democrats Blago and Harris. The national media went
out of their way to absolve him, too.
But declaring Team Obama's hands clean -- especially with Blago crony
and indicted Obama donor Tony Rezko in the middle of it all -- is
premature.
(And if you're wondering why I keep putting "Democrat" in front of the
accused corrupt-o-crats, it's because the mainstream newspapers can't
seem to remember to identify their party prominently - the way
they do when Republicans are nabbed.)
Chicago's Fox affiliate reports that Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago
hometown heavy Rahm Emanuel was the catalyst for the Blago takedown
and suggests Rahm-bo tipped off the feds.
If so, this raises more questions than it answers about who on the
transition team may have talked to Blago and his shakedown artists
about what and when.
Needless to say, if it were the Republican Bush administration tied to
the Blago bust, the White House press corps would be frothing like a pack
of Michael Vick's pit bulls.
Democrats and the media can no longer rest on the old rationalization
that Blago is an exception to the "we're cleaner than thou" rule. 2008 was
the year of Democratic Reps. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson,
Charlie "Sweetheart Deals" Rangel, and former Detroit Mayor
Kwame "Text Me" Kilpatrick.
It was the year Democratic Massachusetts State Senator Dianne
Wilkerson got caught stuffing bribes from an FBI informant down her
shirt.
It was the year 12 Democratic leaders and staffers in Pennsylvania's state
Capitol were stung in a massive corruption scandal involving cash, sex
and abuse of public office. And it was the year of multimillion-dollar
embezzlement scandals at Democratic satellite offices of ACORN and the
SEIU.
The Democrats have met the culture of corruption, and it looks like it
ain't just elephants among the "jackasses" soiling public office.
by Michelle Malkin
Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three
years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused
Republicans of making "their culture of corruption the norm." Pelosi
touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue. But with the eye-popping pay-for-
play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption
chickens are coming home to roost.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the breadth and depth of charges
against Blagojevich and his Democratic Chief of Staff John
Harris "staggering."
That's an understatement.
Anything that breathed was a potential shakedown target. It's the
Chicago way. Democrat Blago's so dirty he'd hit up a children's hospital
for money.
Oh, wait. He's accused of doing that, too.
Democrat Blago allegedly conspired to use his power to appoint President-
elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat as a bargaining chip for
financial payment. He explored trading on that authority for an
appointment as Health and Human Services secretary or as an
ambassador or for installment in a cushy union position. (He discussed
his trading scheme with an unnamed "SEIU (Service Employees
International Union) official" and unnamed "various consultants" in
Washington.)
According to the criminal complaint released yesterday, he also tried to
leverage his influence over the sale of Wrigley Field (owned by Tribune
media company) in an attempt to get Chicago Tribune editorial writers
who called for his impeachment fired -- which illustrates the very perils of
media/government entanglements I warned about in my newspaper
bailout column last week.
His wife, Patricia Blagojevich, was apparently in on the thuggery, too.
Taking a break from her first lady duties advocating "on behalf of women
and children," she is heard in taped discussions about the
ChicagoTribune/Wrigley Field deal telling a governor's aide to
"Hold up that f**king Cubs sh*t. ? F**k them."
Pelosi, champion of women as political cleaner-uppers, was unavailable
for comment.
Fitzgerald says President-elect Obama was not implicated in the plethora
of charges against Democrats Blago and Harris. The national media went
out of their way to absolve him, too.
But declaring Team Obama's hands clean -- especially with Blago crony
and indicted Obama donor Tony Rezko in the middle of it all -- is
premature.
(And if you're wondering why I keep putting "Democrat" in front of the
accused corrupt-o-crats, it's because the mainstream newspapers can't
seem to remember to identify their party prominently - the way
they do when Republicans are nabbed.)
Chicago's Fox affiliate reports that Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago
hometown heavy Rahm Emanuel was the catalyst for the Blago takedown
and suggests Rahm-bo tipped off the feds.
If so, this raises more questions than it answers about who on the
transition team may have talked to Blago and his shakedown artists
about what and when.
Needless to say, if it were the Republican Bush administration tied to
the Blago bust, the White House press corps would be frothing like a pack
of Michael Vick's pit bulls.
Democrats and the media can no longer rest on the old rationalization
that Blago is an exception to the "we're cleaner than thou" rule. 2008 was
the year of Democratic Reps. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson,
Charlie "Sweetheart Deals" Rangel, and former Detroit Mayor
Kwame "Text Me" Kilpatrick.
It was the year Democratic Massachusetts State Senator Dianne
Wilkerson got caught stuffing bribes from an FBI informant down her
shirt.
It was the year 12 Democratic leaders and staffers in Pennsylvania's state
Capitol were stung in a massive corruption scandal involving cash, sex
and abuse of public office. And it was the year of multimillion-dollar
embezzlement scandals at Democratic satellite offices of ACORN and the
SEIU.
The Democrats have met the culture of corruption, and it looks like it
ain't just elephants among the "jackasses" soiling public office.
Don't start none...won't be none.
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Big Blue Owl
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The right wing is seething over the widely-circulated video showing Rachel Smith, the U.S. representative in the Miss Universe competition, being booed by an audience in Mexico after she fell during the evening gown competition. A sample of the outrage:
Michelle Malkin: "Yeah, we're the nativists. Next, they'll tell us the mob at the Miss Universe pageant was simply 'doing the booing Americans won't do.' Will President Bush speak out against the treatment Miss USA received in Mexico?"
Someone check this loony broad's medication. Or at least throw her a rat.
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