Former Democratic presidential contender John Edwards asked Thursday for a two-month delay in his trial on alleged campaign finance violations, citing an undisclosed medical condition among other reasons. "'Extremely pretty hair' was diagnosed along with 'terminal douchebaggery'"
Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, faces six felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from the nearly $1 million paid by two donors to help hide and care for his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, during his 2008 run for the White House. "I am only guilty in one of the Two Americas - I demand the trial be shifted to the Other America"
The trial is set to begin Jan. 30, but Edwards' attorneys said in a motion that they don't have enough time to prepare for such a complex case and that failure to delay the trial "would be likely to result in a miscarriage of justice." like his miscarriage of a campaign, wedding, honor, dignity, and ethics, but then again - he's a lawyer, and a Democrat
Information about the medical condition was provided to the court under seal, according to the motion. Obama's crew could get that unsealed. Like opponent's divorce records. Just saying...
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uhhh perhaps" "'Extremely pretty hair' was diagnosed along with 'terminal douchebaggery'"
should be highlighted. I might have made that part up, accurate as it is
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They're always hale and hearty when they're doing what they're doing. As soon as they're caught and hauled up in front of a judge they develop all sorts of serious medical problems.
Fortunately the federal corrections system has a respectable prison hospital.
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I dunno. It's just a more colorful way of saying sociopathic egomania.
It sounds like someone's jealous of my naturally silky and shiny hair.
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I'm hoping for metastatic breast cancer.
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Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished "every success" to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country's state-run news agency. As misguided as he is, I don't think Carter's idea of "success" has any correlation whatsoever to how Junior defines success.
A dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr. Carter sent the message to Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent. In return, Junior is sending Jimmy a wad of used toilet paper. North Korean officials are curious to see whether Jimmy will even suspect that it is an insult. So are 99.9999998% of Americans.
"In the message Jimmy Carter extended condolences to Kim Jong Un and the Korean people over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il. He wished Kim Jong Un every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to [North Korea] in the future," the KCNA dispatch read. What? Does Carter get off on freeing hostages or something? At least he's welcome somewhere...
When contacted by The Washington Times for comment, the Carter Center provided an email contact to a spokeswoman who is out of the office until the New Year. Hopefully they can hire someone and get her drugged up enough to pull this off without breaking out in hysterics.
North Korea is routinely labeled as one of the world's most oppressive governments under an eccentric personality cult surrounding the Kim family. Harrowing reports from defectors describe North Korea as a dirt-poor nation filled with concentration camps and Communist propaganda. Kim Jong-il ran the reclusive country according to a "military first" policy since the mid-1990s, after a famine that may have killed as many as 2 million people. Wow, only two million people died? Another miracle provided courtesy of Kimmie.
Mr. Carter has visited North Korea twice -- including a 1994 visit for talks on nuclear issues that led to a deal in which North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear-weapons program in exchange for oil deliveries and the construction of two nuclear reactors. That deal collapsed in 2002. Apparently doctors still haven't managed to find a solution to his little "recto-cranial inversion" problem.
The former U.S. president also downplayed a 2010 North Korean attack on a South Korean island and disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility, saying the acts were merely "designed to remind the world that they deserve respect in negotiations that will shape their future." Like most liberals, he tends to "downplay" things that don't fit the utopian human behavior model.
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I'm guessing that WPE means Worst President Ever rather than Writing Proficiency Exam
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Once again I was going to suggest that Rosalynn Carter should have this old goofball committed so that he won't continue to embarrass himself, his family and his country by doing things like this. Before doing so, I googled her. Much to my surprise I found that she is the driving force behind the Carter Center Mental Health Program. Words fail...
[Iran Press TV] US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has lashed out at Washington's engagement in 'perpetual war,' calling on the US administration to mind its 'own business.'
"Perpetual war is bankrupting our country," the Texan congressman told a gathering of his supporters in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Wednesday.
"Every year we spend more and more money overseas," he noted, saying Washington's increasing expenditures in areas, including "intervention, propping up dictators, fighting wars that we don't need to be fighting" acted as a drain on the national budget.
Opposing the US government's undue interference in the economy as well as its military interventions abroad, Paul has pushed his way to the top place in Iowa caucuses, according to recent polls conducted by RealClearPolitics.com, a website, which tracks the US politics.
Washington and some of its allied states invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 and Iraq in March 2003.
The US has reportedly spent over USD 1,100-plus billion in taxpayer money on the war in Iraq, while some experts estimate that the indirect costs of the campaign, such as interest on additional debt, will exceed the direct costs.
The respected Nobel-Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes wrote in a 2008 book that the combined costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has stood at between USD 5 and USD 7 trillion.
Paul has also rejected the US and its allies' allegations against Iran about the Iranian nuclear program and warned against any military confrontation with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"Iran doesn't have a bomb. There's no proof... And for us to overreact and to talk about bombing Iran, that's much more dangerous," he said in an interview with CBS television's 'Face the Nation' on November 20.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to push for the imposition of sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic as well as to call for a military attack on the country.
Iran, however, maintains that, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence of diversion in Iran's civilian nuclear program.
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How bout a Rantburg poll? Is Ron Paul
On the up and up?
A sick, treacherous bastard?
Something else entirely?
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Ron Paul is a sincere politician. Meaning whatever sincerity passes over his lips is framed first and foremost by his need for approval and power.
All politicians are thus and expecting different from them is insanity, yet we do it every election cycle and play as if any of these clowns will ever act accountably.
If we continue to send people off to Washington where they are away and unaccountable to their neighbors we will continue to see these same results. Technology now absolutely allows for in district lives for Congresscritters.
Let's use the internet for what DARPA built it for, remote voting for Congress. Let them telecommute their asses to committees and otherwise work remotely like hundreds of thousands of their fellow Americans do everyday.
Let them look into the eyes of their neighbors everyday instead of living to play the Washington game.
Accountability is a daily thing, and lobbyists get that and haunt around congressional offices; that is why the people with enough resources to hire lobbyists rule the world if not the lobbyists themselves.
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Ron Paul is VERY wrong economically (gold has just as many/more problems as fiat currency), and very naive militarily (if we don't threaten you, you won't threaten us is proven false everywhere or "power vacuums don't produce peace").
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Faith in miners to run the currency is just as unwise as faith in a bunch of academics.
However both will have an impossible time when you tax (income, investment, sales, saving and other transfers) and subsidise (land, patents, copyright) the wrong the wrong things.
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g(r)omgoru, I would amend that to be Libertarians with a capital L.
in the US there area a large number of small l libertarians who are not so dogmatic and make the distinction with the small l. A nice definition can be found here
"A Big L Libertarian is a being of exceptional ideological purity who builds magnificent theoretical constructs from that ideology. He then not only moves into that theoretical construct, but insists that we all move in too.
A small L libertarian admires the exceptional purity of the ideology and the beauty of the theoretical construct, but insists on living in the real world."
Paul is definitely a Big L libertarian. All theory, minimal reality.
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He's been consisten in his views for years. You would know what you were going to get if he were elected. That would be a benefit. Some of his views do not compute in my book, but what the hell do I know anyway? I do know that we have been in two wars for WAY too long and they have cost us an amount of money that the human mind cannot even comprehend. We squander billions on tin pot dictators and wall street a-holes that could easily go toward our own people and developement. Remember also that presidents promise alot, but rarely deliver much.
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I agree with EU6305, he believes what he is saying.
His statement about JFK calling Kruschev remove nukes from Cuba was absurd to the point of a willing lie, and disregards his own sales pitch on account of sanctions were put in place against Cuba in the form of a naval blockade. Not that it matters, because if he had been president at the time and stuck to his beliefs, he would not have known Cuba had nukes until Castro said so.
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No. An aggressive Ronsolationist policy would have had the US troops, equipment, and monies out of NATO very quickly, leaving something quite different than what we grew up with. Of course that also means no Bay of Pigs invasion, so perhaps you are right that Cuba would not need Soviet nukes as Communism spreads unchecked into the West Indies and Central America, and around the world.
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I'm firmly of the belief that the wider communism spread the less sustainable it is, but it's rather important to oppose it, as it's like a fast spreading metastatic cancer will kill it's host faster.
Ladies and gentlemen, admire the leadership. That is an order!
The White House says President Barack I inhaled. That was the point Obama has called House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... to urge a resolution to the payroll tax cut standoff.
Spokesman Jay Carney says Obama urged Boehner to bring the House back into session to pass a two-month extension of the cuts previously approved by the Senate. Carney says Obama reiterated that he is committed to then working on a full-year extension of the cuts.
Carney would not say how Boehner responded to Obama's request.
Carney says unless the House passes the two-month extension, taxes will increase on 160 million people after the first of the year.
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Somebody correct me please - but is this tax cut related to Social Security?
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Funny they call it a Tax Cur - when its all about reducing the SS "Insurance" payroll deduction withheld by 2% (and the government filling that in with IOUs in advance for you).
I guess calling it a Tax Cut puts to lie the old "Its retirement insurance" claims. Pretty obvious now it is a tax and wealth transfer from earners to retirees.
Congress should call it what it is and stop lying to us (and themselves) and playing book-keeping games with the money.
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I know glorious uncle obama has never written a payroll check, but perhaps some of his help could explain how much a pain in the ass a two month extension, or any tax change in-year would be?
Too delicious not to include in the Burg...
"You go back to the reasons that Joe Biden was put on the ticket in the very first instance. It was supposedly because he had the great experience. He had been there for years. He had been Foreign Relations chair. He had been chairman of the Judiciary and supposedly knew the workings of the Senate. Now, has that worked to the president's better interest or has it taken away from the president? And the gaffe is not just a question of will Joe Biden make a gaffe and incidentally I like him. Personally, I think he is a fine fellow," Former Gov. Douglas Wilder (D-VA) said on FOX News.
"But, Is he the person you want in place? You know, you always hear that thing. Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy," Wilder told Neal Cavuto.
"I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me. And so for some guy to come back and today, incidentally, to meet with the returning veterans and their families and I don't believe he would tell them 'Oh, look, the Taliban is not your enemy.' Just like they would have told us in Korea, 'Well, you know, the Chinese are not really your enemy, they're just helping out the North Koreans.' Get ahold of yourself, Joe," he said.
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My message to Biden: Drop Obama
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O'Bumble can't drop Biden - he needs him to deflect assassins. Who in their right mind would want "President Joe Biden"? Now hanging the pair of them together might not be a bad idea, but we'll have to wait until we have a President Palin to do it. I'm sure Todd would pull the lever for his wife with no regrets.
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I figured Biden had been dropped already...on his head.
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Well, if you are into cockfighting, the Blue Hen chicken was particularly ferocious. That's where the name comes from. Back at the time of the founding of the country, that was a fairly popular gambling activity at taverns, etc.
Bo Obama was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President Obamas side Wednesday shopping for treats at Pet Smart
According to Michelle Obamas press office, the first dog was planning to go to Hawaii with the first lady and the Obama daughters. The Associated Press reported that he in fact had made it there. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted an eyewitness who said he had seen the Portuguese Water Dog having his walk.
So what is Bo doing back in Washington shopping at PetSmart?
Either all these reports are mistaken, or Bo was told his vacation was over and that he had to return to the White House to keep a lonely president company and participate in a silly photo op presenting Obama as an average guy who likes to head out to the PetSmart.
If Bo returned from Hawaii, who paid for his flight?
Its possible he hitched a ride on a return flight of the Air Force plane that brought Michelle from Hawaii, which wouldnt have really added much to Michelles more than $100,000 price tag for her solo trip.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished "every success" to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country's state-run news agency.
US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has lashed out at Washington's engagement in 'perpetual war,' calling on the US administration to mind its 'own business.'
Harry Reid
