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Pagegate goes far beyond the House and the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee.
Post Date: 2006-10-14 21:46:05 by robin
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October 13/14/15, 2006 -- LATE EDITION -- WMR's intrepid sources in Florida report on some details about GOP gubernatorial candidate and current Attorney General Charlie Crist, or should we say Charlie Christodoulos. Crist's father, Charlie, Sr., legally shortened the family's name in 1949, according to court records in Pinellas County, Florida. The elder Crist's father emigrated from Cyprus to the United States in 1912. We have also discovered a bit more about Crist's personal details, much of which have been obscured because of Crist's status as a "law enforcement officer." Under post-Patriot Act laws, personal details on law enforcement officers are blocked by special statutes. ...
New Evidence Links Abramoff, Doolittle
Post Date: 2006-10-13 19:44:44 by aristeides
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New Evidence Links Abramoff, Doolittle By Paul Kiel - October 13, 2006, 6:32 PM More evidence of less-than-savory ties between Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) and Jack Abramoff. As The Sacramento Bee noted this morning, a newly released email shows that in 2000, Abramoff and Doolittle spoke about getting Doolittle's wife, Julie, a job with a friend's nonprofit. What the paper didn't reveal is that Abramoff had cut a similar deal for another favored contact: former DeLay aide Tony Rudy. Far from helping out a pal's wife, Abramoff appears to have used the arrangements to funnel bribes to powerful men, like DeLay and Rudy. And Doolittle. The e-mail, released as part of a Senate report ...
CT-04: Shays: Abu Ghraib "Wasn't Torture," Just A "Sex Ring"
Post Date: 2006-10-13 19:41:03 by aristeides
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CT-04: Shays: Abu Ghraib "Wasn't Torture," Just A "Sex Ring" By Matt Corley | bio GOP Rep. Christopher Shays said that what happened at Abu Gharib "wasn't torture"; it was merely a "sex ring." Today's Stamford Advocate reports that Shays made the comment during a debate Wednesday night with Dem challenger Diane Farrell. Here's what Shays told the audience: "Now I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture. It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from [Maryland] who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked." Farrell responded to the paper: "For ...
Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages
Post Date: 2006-10-13 19:29:29 by aristeides
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Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages NBC exclusive: Congressman alleged to have been inappropriate in '96 By Jim Popkin, Aram Roston and the NBC News Investigative Unit Updated: 1:55 p.m. ET Oct 13, 2006 WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first reported on the camping and rafting trip on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said that the U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary assessment" of the trip, after an ...
FBI investigates Rep. Curt Weldon
Post Date: 2006-10-13 19:20:23 by aristeides
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FBI investigates Rep. Curt Weldon By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry. The FBI, which opened an investigation in recent months, has formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section for additional scrutiny. At issue are Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a federal law enforcement official said. The Russian ...
Barbra Streisand: "Shut The Fuck Up!"
Post Date: 2006-10-12 12:52:11 by Mind_Virus
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Barbra Streisand: "Shut The Fuck Up!" Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP It was an evening that elicited tears, standing ovations, raucous laughter and shouts of joy from the audience — and that was just in the first few minutes. Yes, Barbra Streisand's return to touring after a 12-year absence was the extravaganza that it promised to be. Monday night's show at Madison Square Garden was the third stop of a 20-city jaunt across the nation — a virtual lovefest between the ultimate diva and an adoring, sold-out, celebrity-dotted crowd. Streisand effortlessly crooned through a select repertoire of her four decades of hits. But night's most riveting moment came during what was ...
Mickey Mouse’s Gay Romp : Disney Bosses Are Apparently Furious
Post Date: 2006-10-12 12:43:57 by Mind_Virus
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Mickey Mouse’s Gay Romp Hassan Mirza, GAY.COM Thursday 12 October, 2006 The Sun has reported that Mickey Mouse and Goofy were involved in a gay sex romp. Disney bosses are apparently furious after a video of Disneyland staff, dressed in costumes of Disney’s Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy, engaging in mock sex acts. The clip was allegedly filmed ay Disneyland Resort Paris. An ‘inside’ source tells The Sun, “It's Disney characters as you've never seen them before. Goofy grabs Minnie's boobs but the highlight has to be Mickey's gay romp. " Myself, a former employee of Disney, I can tell you that this type of behaviour is STRICTLY forbidden and to ever do anything ...
At least this Republican isn't ashamed: Running as slut
Post Date: 2006-10-11 20:06:38 by Mekons4
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Candidate's book boasts of sex with Packer stars October 11, 2006 BY TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. -- Sex! The Green Bay Packers! Sex WITH the Green Bay Packers! The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by a candidate's naughty tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with legends during the team's glory days in the 1960s. A pass from Don Hutson Sandy Sullivan, 65, a Republican with no political experience, self-published a gushing memoir in 2004 titled Green Bay Love Stories and Other Affairs in which she claims she was the girlfriend of Packers Paul Hornung and Dan Currie, deflected a pass from Hall of Famer Don Hutson and was on the receiving end ...
Page: Foley touched page on House floor
Post Date: 2006-10-11 19:30:42 by Zipporah
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Page: Foley touched page on House floor Pages worry fallout from Foley scandal might threaten program's existenceWalter NowinskiPosted: 10/11/06 A former House page said he witnessed inappropriate contact between former Republican Congressman Mark Foley and another page in the back of the House floor in early 2001. The page, Richard Nguyen, a first-year student at the University's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, said he saw Foley pat a male page's behind. Foley's attorney did not return calls for comment. Nguyen said he was not sure during which month the incident took place. He was a page between January and June of 2001. Nguyen did not report the incident to authorities. At the ...
Kieth (Olberman) gets low ratings in Bed
Post Date: 2006-10-10 11:29:34 by It Is A Republic
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October 9, 2006 -- A BROWN-haired beauty who claims she had an unsatisfying one-night stand with Keith Olbermann is getting her sweet revenge - she's launched a blog to warn other women about the acerbic MSNBC commentator's boorish bedroom habits. The bitter babe, who calls herself KarmaBites1, says she doesn't want others "to fall into the same trap . . . and I want him to feel some remorse for what he's done . . . He sets his mind on a woman, lures her in, and once he gets what he wants, he refuses to ever speak to them again. And I don't think he understands the damage he's caused." A 30-something office worker of Caribbean descent, KarmaBites1 said she struck up an e-mail ...
Echoing Drudge and Savage, Dobson and Henninger claimed Foley scandal is
Post Date: 2006-10-09 19:24:31 by Zipporah
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Echoing Drudge and Savage, Dobson and Henninger claimed Foley scandal is "sort of a joke" and a "prank[ ]" by pages
Summary: James Dobson and Daniel Henninger both echoed a claim previously made by Matt Drudge and Michael Savage that the sexually explicit communications that Rep. Mark Foley allegedly engaged in with former congressional pages were "sort of a joke" or a "prank[]" on the part of the former pages.
Commenting on the congressional page scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) on the October 6 broadcast>http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/archives.asp?bcd=2006-10-6">broadcast of Focus on the Family, James ...
New D.C. Sex Scandal Looming?
Post Date: 2006-10-09 19:18:22 by Zipporah
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New D.C. Sex Scandal Looming?Feds target escort service in money launder, prostitution probe OCTOBER 9--With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes and hotel rooms of well-heeled clients. A two-year probe by Internal Revenue Service and Unites States Postal Inspection Service agents has targeted the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and its owner, Deborah Jeane Palfrey (picture at right). In coordinated actions last week, agents searched the 50-year-old Palfrey's ...
Preacher says GOP delaying 2nd coming
Post Date: 2006-10-09 15:52:50 by Ferret Mike
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Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical preacher trying to influence closely contested political races. K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, his first stop on what he hopes is a 30-city campaign. The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria. "Somebody needs to say enough is enough," he said to worshippers who stood, ...
Coral Snake's Bites of the Week 27 (A new theory about gun control, SnookerThon becomes reasonable facimile of a turtle)
Post Date: 2006-10-09 01:22:51 by Coral Snake
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Coral Snake's Bites of the Week 27 (A new theory about gun control, SnookerThon becomes reasonable facimile of a turtle) This edition of the bites continues the Gun Rights theme I attempted to start earlier this year. I have been studying the issue heavily today and came up with a new hidden reason why the gun grabbers insist on continuing with legislation that doesn't work for its supposed intended purpose, reducing crime. The truth is that the gun grabbers have NO INTEREST in reducing crime despite their protestations to the contrary. In fact a love for criminals and constant pleas for leniency in their cases seems to be another constant gun grabber theme. I feel the roots of both ...
Bush Policies are "Ongoing Criminal Activity" under U.S. and International Law, Scholar Says
Post Date: 2006-10-08 03:52:17 by Ferret Mike
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The House of Representatives “must impeach President Bush for war, lying about war, and threatening more wars,” a distinguished international legal authority at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, contends. The Bush Administration “demonstrates little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, international organizations, and human rights, let alone appreciation of the requirements for maintaining international peace and security,” writes Professor Francis A. Boyle in a just published article. “What the world has watched instead is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international legal ...
"Intelligence asset" and critic of the Bush Administration released from illegal imprisonment after a year
Post Date: 2006-10-08 03:31:02 by Ferret Mike
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Enough with the Marvin takes on cheerful topics... this is just depressing. Lindauer, 42, the cousin of former White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, was released in September from a New York correctional facility after spending a year in jail, awaiting in horrendous conditions government-imposed psychiatric evaluations. A former journalist, congressional aide and U.S. intelligence asset in the Iraqi Embassy, Lindauer tried to notify the Bush administration through her cousin that Iraq posed no WMD threat and wanted to cooperate with U.S. authorities to avert a conflict. For her actions contrary to the Bush administration's policy of "war at any cost without justification," ...
Well, I feel better. Hastert to be investigated by his own committee
Post Date: 2006-10-08 00:32:26 by Mekons4
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Now, can a panel that has been derided as a symbol of congressional dysfunction take up a tough, politically sensitive case a month before an election and produce results within weeks, as promised? Skeptics abound. "We don't have a lot of confidence in the ethics committee," said James Benton of the public watchdog group Common Cause. The committee launched an investigation Thursday into the House GOP leadership's handling of a scandal involving sexually explicit communications that former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican, sent to teenage pages. It has prepared nearly four dozen subpoenas for records and testimony, and its leaders are promising to "go wherever the ...
Former page calls from Iraq to nark on Foley
Post Date: 2006-10-07 23:26:52 by Mekons4
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While the FBI is busy contacting former House pages to see if they got illicit e-mails from Congressman Mark Foley or anyone else, WHAS11 News has learned that a former page from Kentucky has said yes, Foley contacted him. According to Congressman Ron Lewis, the former page is now a soldier in Iraq. But five years ago, he was a teenage page in the U.S. House who was the subject of some kind of questionable contact from Congressman Mark Foley. Lewis’s chief of staff got a satellite phone call from Iraq Tuesday afternoon from a man who wouldn't identify himself. But he did say he was a soldier from Kentucky’s Second Congressional District who wanted to give Lewis a heads up. Also ...
Pelosi says she would drain GOP 'swamp'
Post Date: 2006-10-07 19:45:02 by robin
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Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule. As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats — in her fondest wish — win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history. Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation." Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to ...
Speaker Hastert: The "butt" of many jokes among Washington's gay community.
Post Date: 2006-10-07 19:18:30 by robin
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October 7/8, 2006 -- The rumors about another top GOP member of the House being involved in sexual encounters with young "men for hire" are confirmed to WMR by well-placed sources in Washington's gay community. The member in question is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose "alternate" life style is the primary reason for him and his staff covering up the scandal involving ex-Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley and his lewd messages sent to underage male congressional pages. Hastert's penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC's gay community. Additionally, Hastert's reported extremely small penis is the subject of many jokes among Washington's gay circles. ...
Secret List of Gay Republicans on the Hill Includes Staffers of Ultra-Rightwingers
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:20:58 by Morgana le Fay
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Representative Katherine Harris and Henry Hyde and Senators Bill Frist, George Allen, Mitch McConnell and Rick Santorum — all of whom oppose gay rights — employ gay people in high staff positions. Washington is astir over “The List,” a document that purportedly contains the names of every closeted gay staffer on Capitol Hill. David Corn at the Nation has a copy. While he won’t release the names of the gay staff members, he gives us their job titles and who they work for: What’s interesting about The List–which includes nine chiefs of staffs, two press secretaries, and two directors of communications–is that (if it’s acucurate) it shows that ...
ABC says messages 'couldn't be a prank' - plans more stories involving different pages
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:18:26 by Morgana le Fay
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Network staff say ABC plans more stories involving different pages Faced with claims by the conservative political website The Drudge Report on Thursday that lurid instant message exchanges between disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) and the former page who was outed on a conservative website yesterday were the result of an elaborate prank, insiders at ABC News say the network stands behind its story. Drudge alleges that the young Republican "goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos" and that "the prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to ...
Florida Catholic Diocese, Victim Advocates Urge Foley To Name Alleged Abuser
Post Date: 2006-10-07 00:17:03 by Eoghan
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The Roman Catholic diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, and national advocacy groups for victims of sexual abuse called yesterday for former representative Mark Foley (R-Florida) to give police the name of the clergyman who allegedly abused him as a teenager. "He should absolutely report the perpetrator, living or dead," said David Clohessy, national director of the 7,000-member Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. "He should do it now, not when his civil lawyer says it is convenient. Every day that a molester walks free is a day when he can hurt other kids." Foley's attorney, David Roth, told reporters Tuesday that the former congressman, who was raised as a ...
Bush & Clinton accept medal, hailing our unity, differences
Post Date: 2006-10-06 19:20:54 by Ferret Mike
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Ask George H. W. Bush, an 82-year-old Republican ex-president receiving a joint award with Democrat Bill Clinton, what he thinks of the heated political season, and you might expect an appeal for less partisan rancor. Wrong. In accepting the Liberty Medal with Clinton last night for their role in tsunami and Katrina relief efforts, Bush instead offered a spirited "defense of the proper role of partisanship in our politics." "No doubt, this has been a rough political year," Bush said, "but you'll have a hard time convincing me that politics is tougher and uglier in 2006 than it was in the 1960s or than the 1860s, for that matter. "The thing is, every ...
SCANDAL ALIENATES REPUBLICAN BASE - The Wall Street Journal
Post Date: 2006-10-05 22:19:19 by Uncle Bill
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Scandal May Further Alienate Republican Base Party's Handling of Foley Riles Up Voters Frustrated By Immigration, Spending The Wall Street Journal By JACKIE CALMES October 3, 2006; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- As the scandal over former Rep. Mark Foley has expanded to entwine Republican leaders who knew of his emails to underage male House pages but took little action, the party has new reason to worry about two key constituencies: Christian conservatives and suburban soccer moms. Long before the disclosure of the unduly personal Foley emails and separate, sexually explicit instant messages last week, and the six-term Florida Republican's sudden resignation, his colleagues were fretful that ...
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