BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 10:18 PM

The rare Alaskan Buffoon now has spoken that she's an eye on the oval
office. It's no wonder she's rare, when ever she's seen it's a big joke. Reminds me of Quail & that other idiot that just left office, what's his name?

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 10:14 PM

Ebbie, please, by all means proceed.

Politicians are fair game once they've crossed the hypocrisy line. Usually spoutting off about family values when there's not a value in site not worth selling.

I don't remember Bill C claiming he was a man of values or principles (did he say he was a chuch going man) but that didn't stop those of lesser values from jumping on his behind spoutting about purity.

Keep the dirt liquid.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 10:14 PM

Great Ebbie, I've always been curious about those things, too!! While you're at it, find something on Vince Foster, too...Maybe even three kids killed in Mena, Arkansas, during the mid Eighties, on the train tracks. Don't forget to get the ENTIRE, both side's stories on both!!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:56 PM

"If we want to poke sticks at all the politician's families..(which is not only stupid, it's indicative of a cruel person who ran out of reality)..let's not forget Billy Clinton's brother...and his drug dealing!!..Oh, I forgot, He must be a hero, to all those on here, who like that particular drug!: GfH

As I recall, Roger Clinton is Bill Clinton's half brother. Just as Diana Palin is Todd Palin's half sister. She is charged with dealing Oxycontin. Roger Clinton pleaded guilty to 'distributing' cocaine.

The way I see it, when a politician's family member is a screwup she or he is a valid target - IF the politician has made a big deal of his or her integrity and "family values".

And even then, we haven't made public some of the things that are KNOWN about certain Palin family mambers. Wanna hear some gossip? I'm not going to give it UNLESS they/he/she get in further trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:18 PM

As Chico Marx said, "Everyone knows there is no sanity claus."

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 04:20 PM

"If we want to poke sticks at all the politician's families..(which is not only stupid, it's indicative of a cruel person who ran out of reality)." GfH

Ye gods. Whence all the sudden virtue?

*******************8

Speaking of Sarah Palin, a politician, and her family, the estimable Levi Johnston will be on record when the interview with Tyra Banks airs later this month as saying that Palin allowed him and her 16 year old daughter to share a bed.

Oh, am I cruel?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:56 PM

If we want to poke sticks at all the politician's families..(which is not only stupid, it's indicative of a cruel person who ran out of reality)..let's not forget Billy Clinton's brother...and his drug dealing!!..Oh, I forgot, He must be a hero, to all those on here, who like that particular drug!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:46 PM

Yes, but he wasn't in his right mind when he said that.




                  "Begich better hurry home from Washington. His house might be next!"

                         Responding to SRS:

    "Just noted that Gov. Palin's sister-in-law was arrested for burglary. Damn. I just love family values... I skimmed an article about the governor's sister-in-law. Seems she had been to that house a couple of times before,"

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:11 PM

From: Riginslinger
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 09:41 AM

"UMMMM.....what was it, one of our founding fathers said....Gee, I think it was Patrick Henry........."


               Patrick Henry said, "If you don't have national health care, you might end up dying from an infected mosquito bite."

He Also said, "Pay for my transgender operation, or give me an abortion!" or..something like that!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:17 PM

?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 01:08 PM

Begich better hurry home from Washington. His house might be next!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 10:01 AM

I skimmed an article about the governor's sister-in-law. Seems she had been to that house a couple of times before, as had her four-year-old daughter. Seriously. She burglarized a house and took her daughter in with her at least one of those times. This time the owner caught her in the act and while they were waiting the child got out of the car and wandered into the house. Police said the child indicated she had been in the house before.

A free-range family like this on the loose probably explains why the long-running soap opera Guiding Light was cancelled by CBS. Too much competition and the Palins don't require the selling of commercial space to keep their goofy story going.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 09:41 AM

"UMMMM.....what was it, one of our founding fathers said....Gee, I think it was Patrick Henry........."


               Patrick Henry said, "If you don't have national health care, you might end up dying from an infected mosquito bite."

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:36 AM

Winks back

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 01:19 AM

"I actually don't know one. I've just read!" GtS

That was funny. :)

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:59 PM

UMMMM.....what was it, one of our founding fathers said....Gee, I think it was Patrick Henry.........

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 09:01 PM

Yes, you might not survive, but you certainly have freedom.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 06:55 PM

Jeez..(Several hours later)..I just re-read my last post...and how true that is!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:04 PM

From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 01:07 PM

Yeah, it seems like the further you get from the church, the more pure the values.

That being said, and in the same vein, The further you get from government programs, the more freedom you have, as well!
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 01:07 PM

Yeah, it seems like the further you get from the church, the more pure the values.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 12:54 PM

Just noted that Gov. Palin's sister-in-law was arrested for burglary. Damn. I just love family values.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 12:51 PM

I actually don't know one. I've just read!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:32 AM

Ah ha! Takes one to know one!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:29 AM

Greg, Besides Palin, they've got Ebbie living up there, too!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:27 AM

ENDS UP with a buffoon?

They'ge got Palin.

Or, did you mean ANOTHER buffoon?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 08:20 AM

Jeez! I needed a proof reader when I was writing the script...but not a nit picker.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 11:38 PM

That was a collective "you," as in "you all," or the Texan "Y'all," but if the shoe fits. I detected both errors in your posts. I didn't ask what you'd been smoking, and I removed the name and substituted the general "you" to remove what might be perceived as an accusatory tone. Seems it hit a mark anyway. Oh, well.

;-D

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 10:49 PM

"The Feds are in the pursuit of a course to drop the charges against Ted Stevens. It looks like the whole thing was politically motivated, just like Stevens said it was. The prosecustion withheld evidence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/stevens_justice_14

          What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon in the Senate? "

Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:44 PM

As is quite common, I've noticed, you haven't understood the discussion. No one has called Ted Stevens a buffoon. Except you, even though you may never have heard of the man before. Nice going.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:36 PM

Well, if Stevens is a complete buffoon, I'm sure he'll be in line for an Obama appointment to a cabinet position. Maybe he's being groomed!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:34 PM

lol

So many choices.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:23 PM

So Begich was never in the bathroom with Otter?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:06 PM

Art, that would be MANdrills you're thinking of. (Not to be confused with WOMANdrills?) ; D

Stilly, methinks you've similarly gotten some Mudcatters mixed up with each other. I mixed up Stevens with Craig (not because I didn't know the difference but because I wasn't paying that much attention to the news story). I know very well which one is which.   I also mixed up Begich with Knowles, because I actually had, in my memory, conflated two different Alaska stories (but I recognized Knowles's name and identity when Ebbie mentioned it). Someone else mixed up one of those guys with Butch Otter.   


Sometimes some of us do make mistakes, but someone's always quick to point out the error here at Mudcat. As for googling everything before you post, heck, this is just a BS thread on a message board, not a newsroom or a textbook.    :x

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 07:10 PM

Ted Stevens would be hard to mistake for Idaho governor Larry Craig; Stevens is 84 years old, for one thing. lol

Some of you need to Google these folks before you post. First you had Craig mixed with Begich and/or Stevens, and now you have him mixed up with C.L. "Butch" Otter. Governor of Idaho. I didn't know who was governor, but I knew it wasn't Craig.

Larry Craig was a Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho. He resigned his seat, then he un-resigned and finished his term, after the scandal in Minnesota. He didn't run for re-election last year.

They commented, with a chuckle, on the NPR Diane Rehm Show this morning that Sarah Palin had asked Begich to step down, citing the loss of Stevens' seat due to bad publicity of the trial. Rehm asked her weekly news roundup guests what they thought of those chances. The answer, with a guffaw, was "If you're asking what's the percent chance, 1 to 100, that he'll step down, I'd say it is a minus 50."

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:40 PM

Do female buffoons also have bright red private parts? Or is that baboons? Or bassoons?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 05:36 PM

To my mind, a female buffoon is even worse than a male one. Perhaps I expect better of women. :)

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 05:02 PM

Or maybe they'll just end up with a baboon?   Playing the bassoon?


Ebbie's right. The fact that someone gets off because of prosecutorial misconduct does not mean the person was innocent, just that due process was not afforded him or her.

Sad to say, there are many cases of people getting away with serious violations of both law and ethics simply because an attorney or the police or a judge also broke the law with regard to their case.

Heck, we well may have some real terrorists set loose because the Bush Justice Department obtained evidence via illegal (not to mention unethical) means.

Anyway, Alaska already has a buffoon.   She thinks the fact that parts of Siberia are close to parts of Alaska makes her status as Alaska's governor count as substantial foreign policy experience -- because when Vladimir Putin "rears his head and enters American air space" it will have to be Alaskan air space. Like he would never dream of flying from Moscow to Washington DC or Miama over Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:13 PM

I see!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:03 PM

It's more tuneful.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 02:47 PM

If Alaska ended up with a bassoon, how would that solve the problem?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:57 PM

Are you thinking of a bassoon, Rig?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:07 PM

Does that mean if Begich resigns, Alaska will end up without a buffoon?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 11:33 AM

I like this straight forward response to Governor Palin's suggestion :

Democratic Party Chairwoman Patti Higgins said a special election was unwarranted.

"Ted Stevens was convicted on seven felony charges of accepting gifts that he then never reported, as required by law. The fact that the Obama administration has decided to not pursue a case that the Bush administration lawyers handled in a faulty manner does not take away the fact that Ted Stevens broke laws," she said.

Governor calls for Begich Resignation

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 11:08 AM

Which is ridiculous. Begich was campaigning for the Senate seat before Stevens got in trouble.

What they - and others - seem to forget is that Stevens has not been adjudged innocent of the various charges; it is only established that the prosecution was flawed. Which is deplorable.

There are lots of stories about Ted Stevens.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 10:31 AM

It looks like the Republicans are asking Begich to resign, what the seem to determine is his illgotten seat.


http://aprn.org/2009/04/02/republicans-call-for-begich-to-resign/

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Genie
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 02:04 AM

Ebbie, Tony Knowles is the one I was thinking of that I got confused with Mark Begich. Thanks for clearing that up.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 02:29 PM

Of course!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 01:15 PM

Not you and me, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 12:50 PM

Maybe not the only industry. I think some of them folks is perfectly capable of destroying themselves too. Foot in Mouth is pretty common back there.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: kendall
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 12:39 PM

Washington DC where the only industry is destroying others.