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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Guilty by Reason of Hypocrisy! - by TPO



Mike Crapo

TPO (a.k.a. FormerET)

Comments on

 "Idaho senator charged with DUI" *

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[Sunday, December 23, 2012 - Senator Mike Crapo, R. Idaho, was arrested on a DUI charge in Alexandria, VA. The senator, it turns out, is also a Mormon bishop.  His religion forbids the drinking of alcohol and other beverages such as tea and coffee!]**



Pirates wrote ...
12:30 PM CST
His name reminds me of a Senator from South Dakota. His name was Joe Bottom. Believe it or not, he named his daughter Rosie. Can you believe that? True story. Back in the 1960's. Yes, he was a Conservative Republican.
FormerET responds ...
12:37 PM CST
ha ha ha. That's hilarious.
I was about to comment that Mr. Crap-o must have had a harsh childhood ... what with all the cruel name calling and such. It is a miracle he did not end up being a bully or something. Oh wait. He did become a senator, didn't he?
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FormerET wrote ...
12:50 PM CST
Idaho? ....hmm-mm?
Isn't that the state with another hypocrite Republican Senator who was caught soliciting homosexual favors in an airport restroom some years back?
Whazzup, Idaho?
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FormerET wrote ...
1:10 PM CST
Date: December 24, 2012
Message to William Shakespeare:
Instead of the lawyers, first thing we need to do here is get rid of all religious fanatics, and hypocrites in congress! But if there are lawyers amongst them, them too!
Sincerely,
Your American cousins
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Windy_Denizen wrote ...
1:59 PM CST
He was pretty hammered. 
Not sure what sect of Mormonism he follows but it appears to be pretty liberal.
FormerET responds...
2:09 PM CST
The MoreGin sect, maybe? But they are not liberal by a long stretch!
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Bmdboy wrote ...
2:10 PM CST
Australia says thank you America.... For having a drunken republican senator named Crapo.....
Your still the funniest nation on earth Merry Christmas. Please drive and shoot responsibly.
FormerET responds ...
2:26 PM CST
@Bmdboy:
I'd say we aim to please ... but that is so cliché.
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icyone wrote ...
2:24 PM CST
Maybe the fact that he got elected 3 times is just Montana's way of p**ing at DC & the Gov't long distance.
Rileymon responds ...
2:34 PM CST
IDAHO, not Montana - please, there is a big difference!
FormerET responds ...
2:36 PM CST
And maybe Idaho wants to be famous for something other than potatoes!?
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KBlit wrote ...
2:44 PM CST
A name that is fully consistent with being a member of congress. Anyway he will apologize and be reelected in a landslide and if he had a gun, run for president.
FormerET responds ...
2:51 PM CST
Or he could join the crazy pundits and assorted villains at FOX where they magically make news out of nothing for the propagation of fear and hate.
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Joseph Calling wrote ...
2:51 PM CST
Whew! It's a good thing he didn't have a woman not his wife in the car with him, and it's a good thing he didn't drive it off a bridge and leave her to drown. Oh, yeah, that was someone else.
cfrost1 responds ...
2:53 PM CST
How many years, decades, centuries are you guys going to be milking that?
FormerET responds ...
2:57 PM CST
Milking? ... No, they're drinking!
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yokosuka1985 wrote ...
3:03 PM CST
Amazing people still drink and drive these days.
cfrost1 responds ...
3:16 PM CST
Perhaps God gave him special permission.
FormerET responds ...
3:18 PM CST
I hope he is not a pilot also. I don't like where that scenario leads!
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Rush2112CA wrote ...
3:13 PM CST
What happend to the hooker in the car?
FormerET responds ...
3:19 PM CST
Maybe fbutler1 and his right wing cronies here can give the answer to that one.
Hoya4692 responds ...
3:28 PM CST
Hmmm, male or female?
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neraksmar wrote ...
3:22 PM CST
A very unfortunate last name.
FormerET responds ...
3:34 PM CST
Or maybe an appropriate (i.e. prophetic) name, nonetheless!
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FormerET wrote ...
3:55 PM CST
"When will they ever learn?" is a phrase from that old folk song, "Where have all the flowers gone?"
Apparently, we all must be dunderheads for constantly thinking and doing the wrong things over and over again. What they say about the short memory and attention span must really be true.
A possible solution ...
I believe that history should be taught at every level of the education experience in this country. And by history, I don't mean the revisionist kind. We should hammer ourselves with local, national, and world history as school curricula. That way, maybe, no one will try to pull the wool over our heads ... tell us "up is down" , "wrong is right", etc.
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chindi--s wrote
5:59 PM CST
At least as a good right wing ideologue absolutist, he doesn't consume the devil’s brew--well maybe not!
FormerET responds ...
8:05 PM CST
Isn't "Absolut" some kind of vodka?
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laytonian2 wrote ...
6:08 PM CST
NRA response to Crapo's arrest:
"Let's put mini-bars in all vehicles, to stop drunk driving!"
FormerET responds ...
6:15 PM CST
Or said another way ...
The trouble with killing is not the guns ... it's the killers!
And it follows ...
The trouble with drinking is not the liquor ... it's the drunkard!
amazd responds ...
6:36 PM CST
Let's ban alcoholic beverages. We know how that worked the first time.
FormerET responds ...
7:10 PM CST
Nah, just ban gun users and drunkards. Problem solved because you are dealing with the demand side, not the supply. 
You will be given ownership licenses only. Why should society give you permission to drink (whether to excess or not) or to use your firearm to kill another human being.
We will have the best kind of Catch-22 situation - one that will force people to think and to act responsibly.
And of-course if you don't want to abide by society's laws, then you can go and live in the wilds. Even a "survivalist" would need to live in a community to one degree or another.
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FormerET wrote ...
6:42 PM CST
Re: " Crapo is serving his third term in the Senate. "
I wouldn't say that Senator Crapo is any kind of a servant. The only "serving" he is associated with seems to be either some rapturous praises from his constituents in Idaho ... or the shots of boilermakers he will soon be vowing to ban from his life.
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scottmmanson1 wrote ...
7:42 PM CST
At least he did not drive into the water with his mistress like some other Senator
FormerET responds ...
7:44 PM CST
another crapo comment!
scottmmanson1 responds ...
7:45 PM CST
I think we should call dui driving like a kennedy.
FormerET responds ...
8:03 PM CST
It is DUI ... not DLK, genius.
In case it needs to be spelled out ...
DUI ==> driving under the influence
or in the present situation, we might be tempted to say ...
DUI => driver usually inebriated 
And we are concerned with the living only. We leave the dead rest in peace.
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* posted by Rosalind S. Helderman in the Washington Post,Dec. 23, 2012
** Source:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/12/23/idaho-senator-charged-with-dui/


Saturday, December 22, 2012

Merry X-Mas, Everyone! - by TPO



 "I wonder as I wander"

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by

Annalisa Kerrigan


Annalisa Kerrigan



 "I Wonder As I Wander"
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I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die
For poor on'ry people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander ... out under the sky.

When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all
But high from God's heaven, a star's light did fall
And the promise of ages it then did recall.

If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing
A star in the sky or a bird on the wing
Or all of God's Angels in heaven to sing
He surely could have had it, 'cause He was the King.

I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die
For poor on'ry people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander ... out under the sky.