Comments on: So Much For “Family Values”

By: Donald

Donald — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 04:34:14 +0000

Zen Lill, hope you are doing well. Think it is time for some summer fun? I could use an addition to my Zen Lill Album.

Hope you’re getting all the sun you want.

Don

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:40:24 +0000

The defense in this case — and the reason pundits thought it was a hard case for prosecutors to win — boiled down to arguing that money buying influence and access is not technically illegal. I suspect the jury verdict here was at least in part motivated by a different view of what the law should be — in other words, the jury accepted the prosecutor’s possibly slim rationales for why in this case the law technically was broken, because of the general sense that this sort of behavior is actually always wrong. And if my suspicions of what this jury did and why are correct, then a lot of politicians — most immediately, Rick Perry — had better be very concerned.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:39:04 +0000

“And maybe husbands and wives in America can agree, for future reference, that if ‘for better or for worse’ means anything, it means not eviscerating each other in public.”

This has always been the go-to defense for female politicians in trouble (Geraldine Ferraro, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Zoe Baird, Dianne Feinstein), and in those cases it typically works, so we’ll continue to see it.

By: Mabel

Mabel — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:37:59 +0000

Here’s my thought — the special prosecutor is known as a cautious, sane professional, and he’s a Republican to boot. If he brought this indictment, there’s way more there than any of us know about. Which I don’t doubt for a heartbeat.

While I doubt Perry’ll ever see jail time, I do hope the ensuing scandal is enough to put any presidential hopes to death for good.

By: Robert I

Robert I — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:35:57 +0000

Kevin O’Brady, a fire fighter published a bogus picture of Darren Wilson. It was actually Jim McNeal’s 2006 picture when suffered in a motorcycle accident.

But as you would expect the blogs and other forms of media are full of racists using it to justify Darren’s murder.

These people will do anything to justify their race’s cruelty to OTWs.