Sunday, September 17, 2006
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Here's a liquor bottle and keys to my car...
Moveon.org has compiled a DeLay offense shortlist.
Do people really want this guy representing them???
Among his offenses, Tom Delay:
- Accepted trips from corporations and later helped kill legislation they opposed
- Accepted trips from the lobbyist for a foreign government in violation of House rules
- Paid family members more than $500,000 out of campaign contributions
- Helped sweatshops in the Mariana Islands at the behest of a lobbyist.
- Promised a role in drafting legislation to a corporate donor
- Tried to coerce a Congressman for a vote on Medicare
- Allegedly used corporate money given to his PAC to finance Texas campaigns in violation of state law
- Used Homeland Security resources in a dispute with Democrats in Texas
- Diverted funds from a children's charity for lavish celebrations at the Republican convention
- Threatened retaliation against interest groups that don't support Republicans
- Stacked the House Ethics Committee with representatives who have contributed to his legal defense fund
- Crippled the effectiveness of the House Ethics Committee by purging members who had rebuked him
- Pushed for a rules change for the House Ethics process that paralyzed the panel
- Sought a rule change that would have no longer "required leaders to step aside temporarily if indicted"
Do people really want this guy representing them???
Useful links:
House of Scandal
In DeLay's Pocket
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Full Disclosure
Wow! I actually agree with Tom DeLay! (okay it's ten years ago...)
"The time has come that the American people know exactly what their Representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special interest groups? Or are they working hard to represent their constituents? The people, the American people, have a right to know...I say the best disinfectant is full disclosure, not isolation." - U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, 11/16/95
Thursday, April 07, 2005
DeLay Tactics
That wacky guy and his love for campaign contributions:
Bosnia
Moscow
Americans for a Republican Majority
Physician of the Year
Bosnia
Moscow
Americans for a Republican Majority
Physician of the Year
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
All Secure on the Blogger Homefront
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Thursday, September 18, 2003
Nuclear Proliferation
Just friekin' great. Now everyone will want the bomb to guard against the USA...
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Saudis consider nuclear bomb
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Saudis consider nuclear bomb
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Examples of free speech in action
In a classroom
In a restaraunt
In a college
I think I'm moving to Canada! Or maybe not - evidently there are Canadian terrorist mothers to contend with...
In a restaraunt
In a college
I think I'm moving to Canada! Or maybe not - evidently there are Canadian terrorist mothers to contend with...
It seems the story is no longer available. Here's an excerpt:
Wolfe began to nurse the baby again, using her own bib and blanket. She says the man got out of his seat, walked over to hers and stood staring at her. She says she approached him afterward and twice asked if he had a problem with her feeding her son.
"He marched past me and to the very back of the cabin to talk to the flight attendant," she wrote. "He told her, 'This woman just assaulted me.' ... He then explained that the asking of two questions by a 'foreign national' in international airspace made him feel the victim of terror and as such he wanted to file an assault charge."
Monday, April 21, 2003
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Saturday, April 19, 2003
SAPS
Check out this week's This Modern World comic strip. There's an archive of them at Working For Change, and my own archive at Ignatius J Reilly.
Stop Jay Garner?
Stop Jay Garner seems to be the theme of the week on those radical leftest pinko websites ;-))