Pssst, Gerard....

Don't look now, but little Arthur appears to have followed you home from Jaded Haven.

For God's sake, don't feed him.

Oh, I see him but I can squash him at anytime. Too busy right now for insect control.

Funny, Gerald, but I had commented at Hot Air this past week that if people really wanted a politician who has never, ever done anything unseemly, they were indeed looking for the wrong person in the wrong place. If people really want a "pure" politician forget it - they should pursue a Buddhist monk instead.

I watched Chris Matthews for a few minutes last night. It was clear that He and his "panel" -- which included Dan Rather -- were thrilled with the latest salacious Republican "scandal.". Why not an honest discussin about what obama's up to?

Hell, why not an honest discussion?

I watched Chris Matthews for a few minutes last night. It was clear that He and his "panel" -- which included Dan Rather -- were thrilled with the latest salacious Republican "scandal.". Why not an honest discussin about what obama's up to?

Hell, why not an honest discussion?

You know that's generally true, but not always so, as the events since last August will attest.
Someone who has been a public servant, since the age of 28, but a mother as well and certain element sought to remove both aspects from her c.v.. A competitor of your former employer went
so far as to promote an objectifying video, to diminish her further. Meanwhile, your two aphorisms you suggested earlier this year seem increasingly true at the leadership level

I believe we have another candidate for high office on the (D) ticket, Frank Lombard. Part of the Duke U administration with two adorable adopted "African American" children.

Can't miss as a Democrat.

Republicans get the shaft, but Sanford is one pathetic, metrosexual feminist, self-loving ass.
I'd take Tap Tapper Craig, in a heartbeat.
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Dowd at her best:

- Genius in the Bottle -

As in all great affairs, Mark Sanford fell in love simultaneously with a woman and himself — with the dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes.

re: narciso comment:
Media nervous on new Duke U. rape case (updated)
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Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he's declined to comment.

University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a "perv dad for fun." The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son. All this was before allegedly inviting a stranger to travel to North Carolina from another state to statutorily rape his already-molested adopted son.

It gets worse. The allegations are stunning and sickening. Adams spares us what he says is the worst.

However, identity politics are probably also involved in understanding the media response. Again, Adams:

The Associate Press (AP) did not mention the fact that the five-year old offered up for molestation was black. Bringing that fact to light might be damaging to the political coalition that exists between blacks and gays. Nor did the AP mention that the adopted child is being raised by a homosexual couple. Bringing that fact to light might harm the gay adoption movement.

I am afraid that as far as the media and academic communities are involved, it is not the crime itself that matters, but rather whether the alleged perp is a member of an "oppressor" group. Although white, Lombard is gay, so in the interest of avoiding unpleasant stories involving homosexual adoption, the media is anxious to shut down public interest in the affair.

However, the outspokenness and willingness to judge in advance a case involving white jocks - easy targets - of Duke and media, inevitably place a spotlight on their handling of another Duke rape allegation.

Update: Thomas Lifson notes that Stanley B. Chambers of the Raleigh News and Observer (hat tip: C. Edmund Wright) brings is the following nugget:

Lombard, a licensed clinical social worker with a master's degree in social work, is a health-disparities researcher who studies HIV/AIDS in the rural South.

This means that Lombard toiled in fields of the victimology industry, mining data for correlations that would underwrite government favoritism of victim groups.

A victimologist victimized at least one child in the most heinous way. The ultimate victim(s). And the media see no hypocrisy, and want to make sure the public doesn't either.
Nothing to see here, move along.

All this coming in the wake of another highly publicized incident at the same prominent university? I don't think they can suppress this one. The conservative media have the power to put this case on the national agenda.
It is too dramatic.

Update: Thomas Lifson notes that Stanley B. Chambers of the Raleigh News and Observer (hat tip: C. Edmund Wright) brings is the following nugget:

Lombard, a licensed clinical social worker with a master's degree in social work, is a health-disparities researcher who studies HIV/AIDS in the rural South.

This means that Lombard toiled in fields of the victimology industry, mining data for correlations that would underwrite government favoritism of victim groups.

A victimologist victimized at least one child in the most heinous way. The ultimate victim(s). And the media see no hypocrisy, and want to make sure the public doesn't either.
Nothing to see here, move along.

All this coming in the wake of another highly publicized incident at the same prominent university? I don't think they can suppress this one. The conservative media have the power to put this case on the national agenda.
It is too dramatic.

Sorry, wish there was a delete button.

I couldn't disagree with you more, Gerard.

I, of all people, have no problems with sex. I don't have a problem with our politicians having sex, being divorced, never married, or gay. I just want them to be stand up individuals, not neuters or saints.

I do have a problem with men who'll throw their wife and children under the bus to get serviced or hook up with their "soul mate".

If they'll break that trust, treat the people they love, their own families, so callously, how committed to the public's trust and money do you think these folks can be? Think they might skip corners, break laws, take bribes, sell out? I do.

I want people of all around integrity running my business.

Hate your wife? Get a divorce. Like the same gender in bed? Get a divorce or be open about it from day one if you didn't marry a blind. When politicians drag innocent people through their sexual grinder, it tells us who they really are and I, for one, don't care to have any truck with those warped, ugly goods.

Oh, we are in agreement Daphne.

I don't say that this is the way things shøuld be, but only the way it is.