The Record of Bergen County obtained the Bergen County Education Association memo that includes a closing prayer: Prayer? In unionized public schools? What kinda wingnut Christer reactionary nonsense is this?
"Dear Lord this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, (a fine actor, I'll give 'em that)
my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, (by all accounts a very nice lady)
my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, (Okay, wait a minute, this guy's a Michael Jackson fan and you're letting him interact with school-age children? I'm not sure about that one.)
and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. HI! BILLY MAYS HERE FOR CRYPT-O-MATIC, THE EASY-TO-INSTALL ONE-PIECE MIRACLE COFFIN LINER...
I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor."
Association president Joe Coppola says the "prayer" was a joke and was never meant to be made public. On the other hand, we're talking about New Jersey here. You know, land of the cement overshoe? Sopranos? That Jersey.
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But there are no threats from the vast left-wing conspiracy? Since the unions are so tied in with this administration (BO's), is not praying for God to kill Gov. Christie a violation of church and State? Where's the ACLU? The unions are the new State religion?
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"MIJAC"s Physician is claiming that MJ ignored his professional warnings + essens killed or destroyed himself wid his morbid personal drug habits, aka SELF-MURDER = SUICIDE; + that he should not be punished = severely punished? for doing his duty as a Physician in MJ's PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT???
ION IIRC TOPIX > GATOR OUT LOOKING FOR LOVE KILLED BY COP; + "LIZARD LIQUOR/BEER" CREATES STIR IN MONGOLIA.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who had a central role in the health reform fight as the leader of anti-abortion Democrats, plans to announce Friday that he will not run for reelection, a Democratic official said. Without Stupak on the ballot, the seat becomes an immediate pickup opportunity for Republicans.
"Now with health care done, he's retiring," a friend said. "He has thought about retiring for the last three cycles, but was always talked into staying: to elect John Kerry to help end the war, to elect a Democratic majority to get health care done."
President Barack Obama called Stupak on Wednesday and asked him not to retire. Stupak, 58, also resisted entreaties from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the dean of the Wolverine State delegation.
Republicans immediately attributed Stupak's decision to step down as a direct consequence of his health care vote.
"After selling his soul to Nancy Pelosi, it appears that Bart Stupak finally found the courage to tell her no," said National Republican Congressional Committee communications director Ken Spain. "The political fallout over the Democrats' government takeover of healthcare has put the political careers of many Democrats in jeopardy thanks in-part to Stupak's decision to abandon his alleged pro-life principles."
Republicans believe that other pro-life Democrats, like freshman Reps. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio) and Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.), will also face serious trouble because of their support for the health care legislation without strict anti-abortion provisions.
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A slippery politician the voters of Michigan won't have to get rid of at the polls. Now if they only see the light and vote right.
Hey bumper slogan: "See the light and vote right."
He thought about retiring earlier but he saw he would win.
Now...not so much.
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President Barack Obama called Stupak on Wednesday and asked him not to retire. Stupak, 58, also resisted entreaties from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the dean of the Wolverine State delegation.
Lip service. You were a used and abused pawn in their grand agenda. You'll be forgotten by them five minutes after you leave.
Thanks for playing, sucker. Drop by and see us sometime when you're in town. Maybe we'll buy you lunch.
So was it worth it, Bart?
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Brave Bart Stupak ran away
Bravely ran away, away
When opposition reared its head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Bart Stupak turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Bart Stupak!
The seat was a likely flip even if he'd stayed in. I suppose this way he can get a nice consulting job with Planned Parenthood.
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On the other hand - Stupidity never retires.....
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Dollars to donuts, he picks up a position somewhere in the Obama administration. After a suitable waiting period to let the dust settle, of course.
"The truth is clear," said Indra Madewa, the president's childhood neighbor, who played daily with the boy he knew as "Barry," a chubby American from Hawaii. "We know he's busy, but we just want to refresh his memory."
What Madewa and other old friends want to remind Obama about won't bring any joy to those in the United States who contend that the president is a closet Muslim. The truth, they say, is this: While Obama went to Besuki, a mostly Muslim school, for less than a year, he spent most of his four years in Indonesia studying at Santo Fransiskus Asisi, a Roman Catholic school run at the time by a stern Dutch priest. Classes began and ended each day with Christian prayers. The Wright kind of prayers?
Fed up with being airbrushed out of the picture, the Catholic school finally decided to push back. "I said, 'This is not fair: We have to do something,' " recalled Boy Garibaldi Thohir, an Asisi graduate who, in addition to running an energy company, is spearheading a drive to reclaim Obama for St. Francis. You can have him.
"Facts are facts," he said. "We want to explain to the world a fact of life: Obama went to Asisi for nearly three years." The school recently put up a big board outside his first-grade classroom; it features inspirational quotes from Obama and Saint Francis. I wonder if I could guess which was which?
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If he's not, well, I'M ashamed that he attended a Catholic school and apparently none of the lessons stuck. (Were slacker nuns responsible for that, or was the pupil just particularly dense?)
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The thought of a little Obama getting a whack on the knuckles from a no-nonsense nun makes me smile. Maybe a Jesuit priest should have been called in for Barry and his more "sensitive than most of us" problems.
Stormy Daniels and her team may not have come to a conclusion about her Senate candidacy over the past few months, but she's managed to be a thorn in the side of Louisiana Republicans nonetheless.
Since the former porn star's ballyhooed announcement Tuesday that she's discovered her inner Republican, thanks to the RNC's Voyeur scandal, one GOP-er told POLITICO that some long-standing members of his party have begun to wonder why, if she's serious, Daniels didn't proclaim her rightward tilt on her frequently updated Twitter account.
At the time of the announcement, it appeared Daniels was making brunch plans with a friend and choosing her wardrobe for an upcoming production she's filming in L.A.
Justifying her Twitter time, Daniels's point man (and Democratic operative) Brian Welsh said: "Stormy's twitters highlight both her strong work ethic and a dedication to a conservative fiscal brunch policy. This is exactly the kind of dedication and fiscal common sense that resonates with the American people."
But for Republicans, all the attention on Daniels's antics is actually quite annoying.
"It's been clear for months, and evidence bears it out, that this is nothing but a shameless PR stunt engineered by Democrat Party operatives with connections to the Melancon campaign," says NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh. He added, "Charlie Melancon and his campaign operatives owe voters in Louisiana an apology, as do media outlets like the Associated Press who have given ink to this nonsense at a time when there are so many important issues facing the state of Louisiana and our country."
Louisiana Republicans have also released a list of questions.
"This would be high comedy if it wasn't such a sad reflection on Charlie Melancon's campaign," scoffed another Louisiana Republican. "The coordination between their camp and hers is as clear as day. This has the potential to really backfire on Melancon."
However, Melancon's team says there's no connection between the two parties. Spokesman Jeff Giertz tells POLITICO: "Ms. Daniels's interest in running for Senate was publicly reported long before Charlie Melancon decided to run. The Melancon campaign never recruited, encouraged or asked Ms. Daniels to run for Senate, and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie. Period. Regardless of who emerges from the GOP primary, Charlie will be focusing on his message of bringing more bipartisanship, common sense and honesty back to Washington."
Of course, Team Stormy responded early Wednesday morning to what it called the "[David] Vitter attack machine."
"We are disappointed that Senator Vitter has shamelessly allowed the Washington and Baton Rouge Republican elite to violate Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment and attack a fellow Republican who is not as of now even a declared candidate in this race," a statement said. "To be clear, the only people who have recruited Stormy Daniels are the hardworking men and women of Louisiana who are tired of federal spending, terrified of government intrusion and are looking for a true conservative to run for United States Senate."
Added Louisiana Democratic Party spokesman Kevin Franck: "It sounds like the folks over at John Ensign's former stomping grounds need to sit down, take off their tinfoil hats and take a deep breath. You don't need some half-cocked conspiracy theory to figure out why Republicans keep jumping into the race against David Vitter. If the NRSC is uncomfortable with a Republican challenger who has a history of selling sex, I would suggest they reconsider standing by an incumbent with a history of paying for it."
Queries to the Louisiana GOP went unreturned. Louisiana has strange rules about open primaries, with all parties on the same ballot, and a candidate must win over 50 percent to avoid a runoff. Therefore 'false flag candidates' are common.
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And it's all a great joke, from this story, to crossover / re-register and then un-re-register voters making mcshame the GOP nominee, to jon stewart and steven colbert cracking funny while college kids think it's news, to franken being elected declared a senator. Ha Ha Ha. When the fallout of all this hilarity hits home, lots of people will not be laughing...
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But for Republicans, all the attention on Daniels's antics is actually quite annoying.
A sad indicator of the state of politics in this country.
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Those who actually vote aren't laughing. Maybe the pups who watch Stewart and Maher are still laughing, but most of them don't get out of bed early enough to vote come election day.
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When the Republican primary candidates are strong I usually re-register as a Democrat and vote for the most loony-tune / unlikely to win Democrat in the primary. That at least makes the election more interesting . . . And if they win the primary, it of course helps the Republican in the fall.
Not badly written, at least to a quickly scanning eye, albeit entirely too long and filled with standard left-wing memes. Interesting that the organization he reports on is adult rather than student led, and that he actually reports that the students needed to be prodded hard to do more than merely sign petitions, indicating a real disinterest in the subject, no matter how fashionable. One wonders how much the article owes to editorial rewrite.
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Interesting is it not that more and more of this....stuff, is coming out. No one possessing the character of this empty suit can completely mask their past. It's simply not possible.
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"The truth is clear," said Indra Madewa, the president's childhood neighbor, who played daily with the boy he knew as "Barry," a chubby American from Hawaii. "We know he's busy, but we just want to refresh his memory." 
