So Much For “Family Values”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 5th, 2014
Good morning
This may not be a hot topic for many, but for me, I couldn’t not say something. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, were found guilty today of corruption.
Bob McDonnell’s actions of attacking his wife, blaming her for taking the bribes, calling her crazy and incompetent, etc., to save his own skin, instead of upholding his so-called family values and sparing his wife of all charges, says it all.
But let me spell it out anyway. What a sick LSOS. (Yes, I have added him as a member in the LSOS Club.) Once again, a blatant and disgusting extreme example of hypocrisy.
I HOPE he pays big time for his crimes.
From The Rachel Maddow Show. The slimy juice starts around 10 minutes into the video.
Wife-dumping defense fails ‘family man’ McDonnell
Rachel Maddow reports on the guilty verdicts in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, and traces the declining arc of McDonnell’s pious “family values” political persona to his legal defense of scapegoating his wife.
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September 5th, 2014 at 9:05 am
The Deal With Aluminum Free Deodorant
By Jessica Hunter on January 7, 2013
Is aluminum really that dangerous? Check out the answers with aluminum free deodorant options.
These days, many people are switching to aluminum free deodorant. Unfortunately, many are doing so without being well informed — because they received an email, perhaps, or heard about an Internet site linking deodorant to cancer from a friend of a friend of a friend.
The research is sketchy. Naysayers argue that aluminum, the ingredient in antiperspirants that keeps you from sweating, can clog your lymph nodes, and studies link this sort of thing to increased risks of Alzheimer’s, brain and respiratory disorders, and cancer, especially breast cancer. Some studies suggest some truth to this, while others claim it’s a bunch of baloney.
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Adidas Absorbent Deo Wetness Control is a well-known name in the sports industry. And as you’d expect, they’ve sought out ways to keep you dry as well as smelling fresh. A microfilm barrier prevents you from getting perspiration all over everything. This is a slightly more expensive option but very effective.
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Desert Essence Aluminum Free Dry by Nature Deodorant is a little cheaper than the Adidas option. But like the Adidas brand, this aluminum free deodorant reduces wetness and neutralizes odors with a gentle, fresh smelling scent. It’s not quite as effective as Adidas but clocks in at about a fifth of the price.
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5. For men
Task Essential Keep Fresh Deodorant works for our male counterparts. There are fewer aluminum free deodorants for men, since much of the concern seems to come from the combination of shaving your underarms and using deodorant together.
However, the Task Essential brand is both aluminum and alcohol free, making it a nice smelling natural deodorant for even sensitive skin.
Experts agree that the best deodorant is the one that works for you. But if you’re leaning towards an aluminum free deodorant, these five are great places to start.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:19 am
Typical hypocrisy of the republican party.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:36 am
AnonZ has used his connections in Somalia to help Obama locate Ahmed Godane, the leader of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab.
That was all Obama needed to put together an action that took him out. http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/05/world/africa/somali-militant-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Once again unlike the 43 before him Obama is proving that you can run but you can’t continue to hide from his reach.
Soon Putin will discover that he is not dealing with the previous hypocritical swaggering former US presidents. Obama is bringing a strategy that the previous 43 couldn’t put together.
He is bringing together the rest of the world to assist in policing the world. The republicans are now busy siding with him with a big BUT that will graduate into an attack upon his every action.
Unfortunately for them they can’t jump on him immediately because Obama is getting the enemy leaders bush never could.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:01 am
The creep could have accepted a plea for one violation that would have allowed his wife to walk free and clear, but this hypocrite refused and took his wife down with him.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:13 am
Howie what is that asteroid about heading towards earth.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:17 am
Howie, you have written about erupting volcanos. What is this about. Lava from the Kilauea volcano is less than a mile (2km) away from Kaohe Homesteads, and the scorching liquid could hit the area in five to seven days if it continues on its current path, geologists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have said.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:23 am
Give a person a little power and you get the principle that is canceling a high school dance because she is sick of girls tweaking.
These republicans are hypocrites. If the old two left footed self appointed moralist could tweak she would be okay with it.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:26 am
Obama formed a coalition of of nations to fight ISIS. He didn’t pull a macho, we, the US will destroy ISIS. He said that a NATO alliance and the US has put together a strategy to degrade and destroy ISIS.
Intellect in the White House makes all the difference.
September 5th, 2014 at 10:32 am
I hear US F-15s were trailing a private airplane that has entered Cuban Air space. It seems the windows are frosted over which indicates that hypoxia situation.
Does anyone here know what is happening?
September 5th, 2014 at 10:42 am
The U.S. has confirmed one of the world’s top terror leaders, Ahmed Abdi Godane, the head of the Somalia-based Al Shabab, was killed in a U.S. strike this week.
Friday’s confirmation of his death was celebrated in Somalia, where the Shabab has lost most of its local support and territory in recent years, but remains East Africa’s most dangerous Al Qaeda affiliate.
Godane had claimed responsibility for last September’s attack on the Nairobi Westgate Mall, which killed more than 65, including two Canadians and sanctioned dozens bombings inside Somalia over the last six years.
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You go Obama.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:26 am
McDonnell’s case puts me in mind of that great line from “A Man for All Seasons”:
Paraphrasing Thomas Moore’s comment to Richard Rich: “It profit a man not, should he gain the entire world, yet give up his soul. But, for a ROLEX?”
September 5th, 2014 at 11:28 am
The corruption was much worse. It went on for a long time with clear understanding that they were selling access. The defense was desperation; it was shameful but their best chance. Certainly better than the truth.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:29 am
So Daaling admits there is not much there but “feeling dirty” is a reason we put people in jail. Only a Progressive could think it’s supposed to work that way.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:30 am
I’d be fascinated to know if this defense was the lawyer’s idea, or something McDonnell insisted on.
If it was his lawyer’s idea, I hope McDonnell didn’t pay too much. There are very few circumstances in which it’s a good idea to put your client on the stand. ESPECIALLY if the client is not as Pure As The New-Driven Snow.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:31 am
McDonnell’s values were shaped at Pat Robertson’s Regent University. It’s probably safe to assume he has an entire lifetime of sleazy, immoral behavior behind him. A deeper look into his past will undoubtedly reveal all sorts of disgusting facts — it’s built into the very fiber of his being by the hypocritical conman Pat Robertson, who should take full credit for his creation.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:31 am
Not sure people should go to jail for long periods for this behavior, though. One year should suffice. That leaves you with a federal criminal record and jail time served. Multiple years of jail just doesn’t seem appropriate.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:33 am
An effort was made during the last General Assembly session to put some teeth in the ethics laws here in the Commonwealth. The effort was so ludicrous that the Gov. vetoed the bill that did get passed.
You can bet that there will be a more concerted effort in January as the Republicans (who have a majority in the House and a much, much, much smaller one in the Senate) try to distance themselves from this sordid mess.
Hello, Al.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:33 am
Not to take pleasure in other people’s misfortunes, but here in Illinois it’s relief to see somebody else’s governor going to jail for a change.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:36 am
Bill#11, Yeah, that’s almost the sleaziest part. For an efffing rolex?
September 5th, 2014 at 11:41 am
Mike #16, Actually, “feeling dirty” is a large part of why we put people in jail. Lawyers use this strategy all the time.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:42 am
Mike#16, “If it was never perfectly clear that the prosecutors found the quid to the pro quo, well, in the end it didn’t matter. After weeks of trial, the jury seemed to want nothing more than to loofah off the filth and go home.”
Yes, I can read, can you?
September 5th, 2014 at 11:44 am
@Bill311 That’s what bothers me the most about this. He didn’t even have the spine to ask for a lot of stuff. If you are going to sell your integrity, it better be for fifty diamond-encrusted Rolexes, not just one.
You better get your own private jet, instead of just occasionally getting to ride around in one. Give the U.S. Marshals something interesting to seize, like a 50-foot tall golden calf whose nipples shoot out streams of pure uncut cocaine.
When you’re sitting in federal prison, you want to have some crazy stories to tell the other inmates and “oh, one time I went shopping with my wife and someone else paid for it,” isn’t going to impress anyone. McDonnell isn’t going to get into any of the higher-tier prison gangs if this is the best he can do.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:46 am
Bill#11, a pedestrian rolex at that -your soul should at least be worth a platinum yachtmaster or daytona…..but a stainless datejust…..sheesh…what a rube.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:57 am
Alice#22, a 50-foot tall golden calf whose nipples shoot out streams of pure uncut cocaine.
That’s going on the Xmas wish list.
September 5th, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Mike#11, Until quite recently, conservatives were happy to put people in jail for having sex that made them feel icky.
September 5th, 2014 at 12:59 pm
It seems that Putin has learned that he is not dealing with a white brain in the White House. He tried to push Obama to take him on in his own backyard.
But Obama was much too smart for that. He got all of NATO to cooperate in standing up to Russia’s aggression against the Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of NATO troops are now on the ready to answer any Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Russia now knows that it will not only have to deal with US nukes but ones closer to home in Europe.
Putin has just learned that fucking with Obama is not like fucking with the other 43 that occupied that office. If I may paraphrase Zen Lill’s predeliction towards usurping the black dialogue. Obama don’t play that.
This white man feels a whole lot safer with that black man in the White House.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:02 pm
Laura#25, Or for owning some drugs that don’t hurt anyone else.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Mike#11, Who is ‘Daaling’?
September 5th, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Sid#14, Honestly, though, what other defense is there?
September 5th, 2014 at 1:15 pm
@mike#16, When people speculate about the number of years that a defendant is facing, it’s usually based on (usually inappropriately) adding together the maximum sentence for each charge. While that does happen (see Madoff), it’s not reasonable to assume that the same would happen for every defendant.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:19 pm
@mike#16
Yeah, multiple years is better for some dude with an ounce of pot.
Listen, if America is going to freak out and throw people in jail for extended periods, let that dumb sh!t apply to everyone, not just the mud people and blahs whose trials don’t get national attention.
Maybe sentencing reform can get some muscle behind it when rich folks know a couple of people who got tossed in the hoosegow for a decade or two.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:20 pm
@mike#16, I think selling the office of governor should come with a hefty punishment.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:22 pm
Hal#29, That meeting (or arranging for meetings) for givers of gifts and campaign contributions isn’t illegal, even if it is sleazy.
This is certainly the defense that will be repeated on appeal… I’m pretty sure we won’t see a re-appearance of the “the wife did it” defense.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:24 pm
@Sneed#15, What’s funny is that I actually used to think that McDonnell was a decent guy. I mean, he was a Republican so I didn’t really agree with him politically, but he came across as sober, reasonable, technocratic — the kind of boring but competent general manager that no one really adores but keeps things running.
This case is so much more sordid because of how bland he came across to me. It would be like finding out that Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon got caught for trying to buy meth at an elementary school in Newark. It’s just so demeaning.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
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.
September 5th, 2014 at 2:37 pm
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.
September 5th, 2014 at 2:39 pm
“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.
September 5th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
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.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:34 pm
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