Lol kristy! Brendan, the guy is a billionare! Could he just sneeze some money on a policeman or something? This is what I bitch about all the time with freakin stupid ass other people. There’s this sense of entitlement. Like, oh, I’m special, I can cut your off in traffic and never pay parking tickets. I can pay taxes in the 10% bracket even though I have a billion dollars and brag about how I want to help the poor.
Well, yeah . . . but I had a car in Boston for two weeks the entire time I lived there and managed to ring up $100 in parking tickets and still have no idea how.
Even if you had tons of cash, would you want to write a personal check to foot the bill for your staffers’ every tiny screwup? Rich people stay rich by saving. I work with 40 engineers making six-figure salaries, or close to, and they have all fought little battles with management to be provided desk lamps. Ten dollar desk lamps. I can buy a freakin’ ten dollar desk lamp, and would before I went harping on my boss, but the fact that I pay for everything I see, eat, do, or wear myself is one of the reasons I don’t have a savings account. It is part of travel and expense, and the ballgame was a campaign publicity event; hence the usage of campaign funds. What do you think those pay for, anyway? Posterboard and Sharpies? Small potatoes. Now, the Lear jet to the Carribbean for pina coladas? That I’d have a problem with.
Dude, Val, that’s crap and you know it. First of all, the tickets are not written to Kerry’s campaign, they are written to Kerry, as is public record. Secondly, if Kerry needed a friggin lamp for his office, he could pay his servant’s servant to get it for him. Or make the gov’t do so. The fact is, when person X donated $20 of their money to Kerry’s campaign, they didn’t want it to go to pay off his parking tickets. It’s dishonest and people like me, who would donate to a political campain and earn less in a year than Kerry earns in interest on his investments in two weeks have every right to be pissed off by the man’s greed. Kerry has every right to say he should get office supplies like paper and such as the rest of the Senate does as well. But really, he shouldn’t STEAL money from people to pay a debt like that. To someone like Kerry, $300 is completely insignificant. He makes more money than that when he brushes his teeth in the morning as his investments grow. To someone like me, $300 is like a miniature fortune! Seriously, the idea of getting $300 for free is like a dream!
And Kerry NEVER GOT RICH BY DOING ANYTHING. He married into wealth. The money and privileges he enjoys because of that wealth were earned by a dead man.
Honestly Val, if Cheney racked up a parking ticket and used public funds to pay for it, you would be having kittens.
Okay, I’m still stuck on the $300 thing. Could you imagine how many buttons that is? I bet that would rent a pretty nice billboard for a week.
I know it would buy almost 10 40lb bags of dog food or 60 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (mmmmsugar). If I had $300 bucks, Brendan knows I would spend it on coral. That’s so true too. Lol! Coral and take-out. mwahaha. Brendan would buy computer gizmos. Or he would buy suits. Or he’d put it away for a rainy day.
why am i suddenly thinking about the lottery again? lol!
Coral, eh? Interesting. My $300 would go to either a new cell phone (mine is a breaking, flimsy piece of doodoostuff!) or digital camera, and some threads for my son. I don’t have kittens over even Dick Cheney misappropriating $300, because it’s not worth my breath when so much large scale pork barrel crap floats right by each and every day. I threw fits over the $25 million Creationism museum (You could feed a lot of children for that). I hacked up a furball or two over some extraordinarily costly restorations made to some crappy, small town statues. I think we have done quite a bit more research into the mating habits of lake trout than was called for. $300 is a lot to me, but I didn’t fuss over Clinton’s $300 haircut (remember that?) even though it was ridiculous. And the tickets weren’t caused by him: You can’t put a person’s name on a parking ticket when they’re not there. It was a rental car in John Kerry’s name, used by all his staff; ergo, the tickets were placed in his name after they went unpaid long enough that the court looked up the registered owner of the vehicle, contacted said rental agency, and found it was in his nominal posession on those dates.
Look at big stuff. If this is all the GOP can dig up on Dems on a Tuesday (or whatever) then we’re looking better all the time.
Oh, and BTW, Bush sank several businesses, and never earned a dime of his own either. Who cares that neither one knows real work? They didn’t even show a major concern over who had real military experience.
Lol kristy! Brendan, the guy is a billionare! Could he just sneeze some money on a policeman or something? This is what I bitch about all the time with freakin stupid ass other people. There’s this sense of entitlement. Like, oh, I’m special, I can cut your off in traffic and never pay parking tickets. I can pay taxes in the 10% bracket even though I have a billion dollars and brag about how I want to help the poor.
Are you calling Becky GOP for thinking those 300 bucks were not properly spent? wow..
Pork, the Dems do it, the Reps do it, the constitutents expect it.. are all guilty. Now if you want to see the Democracts do goofy, shady things, just look at California politics, the examples abound!
Dude, I was ticked about that stupid haircut. Really really ticked.
In terms of the “how much dirt was dug today?” train of thought, I’m not a big fan. I don’t look at the Repubs and the Dems as mortal enemies, but more like two bickering old ladies who don’t always get along, but if they ever agree, you’d better watch yourself. The us/them thing is not entirely helpful.
Although, I have to admit, making fun of John Kerry and his parking tickets is mildly fun, as was George Bush choking on a pretzel. lol!
Kerry’s bumbling now only further cements why he didn’t become president though. What a piss poor PR move! Next thing you know, he’ll be out in the streets dressed like a whigger with gold chains trying to bond with the street crowd because he was put down by the man. ;)
Of course I wasn’t calling Becky a GOP member. Just because she thinks it was shady, as do a lot of liberals and conservatives alike, it doesn’t automatically align her with the ‘Pubs. I like guns, want to own and carry one (with proper licensing and training) and I think that beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt guilty murderers (especially admitted ones) should get the needle; and I’m still firmly planted on the left of the fence. My only point was that it’s a relatively insignificant thing to throw such a tantrum over, since it could be argued as a legitimate expenditure (watch me play devil’s advocate even though I’m just a poor liberal) and the fact that Kerry is independently wealthy has nary a whit to do with whether or not the allotment of a small part of his campaign funds (some of which were actually his money, ya know) could justifiably go to pay off parking tickets accrued by his campaign staff while on the trail. If he hadn’t been campaigning there, he wouldn’t have gotten the tickets. (Yes, I am aware his staff members could have been more careful about parking or feeding the meter, but sometimes those things are unavoidable.) If a person trips on a branch laying on the sidewalk and breaks an ankle, while posting flyers for his company while on the clock, he can get workers comp. His company’s funds will cover it, because he was there on their behalf in the first place. If he tripped on self-same branch on his own time, he’d be SOL (barring any massive lawsuit effort against the city, which is seldom won.) I try to avoid the temptation to say “Greedy bastard rich fucker!” because one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on, or acting like I am more obligated to pay for all my own shit, and theirs, too, even if it’s a writeoff for everyone else.
Bumbling? You ever run a huge campaign? It probably wasn’t even he himself who wrote the check, but someone in his office. Sometimes people don’t put that much forethought into what might be made into bad PR. Kerry didn’t get the presidency for other reasons; not because he’s an idiot.
..one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on
I agree with you on that one, most Republicans do :) but a loft of people out there, particularly Democrats, are a little more skeptical on letting me spend my money in whatever I want.
Well, yeah . . . but I had a car in Boston for two weeks the entire time I lived there and managed to ring up $100 in parking tickets and still have no idea how.
Even if you had tons of cash, would you want to write a personal check to foot the bill for your staffers’ every tiny screwup? Rich people stay rich by saving. I work with 40 engineers making six-figure salaries, or close to, and they have all fought little battles with management to be provided desk lamps. Ten dollar desk lamps. I can buy a freakin’ ten dollar desk lamp, and would before I went harping on my boss, but the fact that I pay for everything I see, eat, do, or wear myself is one of the reasons I don’t have a savings account. It is part of travel and expense, and the ballgame was a campaign publicity event; hence the usage of campaign funds. What do you think those pay for, anyway? Posterboard and Sharpies? Small potatoes. Now, the Lear jet to the Carribbean for pina coladas? That I’d have a problem with.
Dude, Val, that’s crap and you know it. First of all, the tickets are not written to Kerry’s campaign, they are written to Kerry, as is public record. Secondly, if Kerry needed a friggin lamp for his office, he could pay his servant’s servant to get it for him. Or make the gov’t do so. The fact is, when person X donated $20 of their money to Kerry’s campaign, they didn’t want it to go to pay off his parking tickets. It’s dishonest and people like me, who would donate to a political campain and earn less in a year than Kerry earns in interest on his investments in two weeks have every right to be pissed off by the man’s greed. Kerry has every right to say he should get office supplies like paper and such as the rest of the Senate does as well. But really, he shouldn’t STEAL money from people to pay a debt like that. To someone like Kerry, $300 is completely insignificant. He makes more money than that when he brushes his teeth in the morning as his investments grow. To someone like me, $300 is like a miniature fortune! Seriously, the idea of getting $300 for free is like a dream!
And Kerry NEVER GOT RICH BY DOING ANYTHING. He married into wealth. The money and privileges he enjoys because of that wealth were earned by a dead man.
Honestly Val, if Cheney racked up a parking ticket and used public funds to pay for it, you would be having kittens.
Okay, I’m still stuck on the $300 thing. Could you imagine how many buttons that is? I bet that would rent a pretty nice billboard for a week.
I know it would buy almost 10 40lb bags of dog food or 60 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (mmmmsugar). If I had $300 bucks, Brendan knows I would spend it on coral. That’s so true too. Lol! Coral and take-out. mwahaha. Brendan would buy computer gizmos. Or he would buy suits. Or he’d put it away for a rainy day.
why am i suddenly thinking about the lottery again? lol!
Coral, eh? Interesting. My $300 would go to either a new cell phone (mine is a breaking, flimsy piece of doodoostuff!) or digital camera, and some threads for my son. I don’t have kittens over even Dick Cheney misappropriating $300, because it’s not worth my breath when so much large scale pork barrel crap floats right by each and every day. I threw fits over the $25 million Creationism museum (You could feed a lot of children for that). I hacked up a furball or two over some extraordinarily costly restorations made to some crappy, small town statues. I think we have done quite a bit more research into the mating habits of lake trout than was called for. $300 is a lot to me, but I didn’t fuss over Clinton’s $300 haircut (remember that?) even though it was ridiculous. And the tickets weren’t caused by him: You can’t put a person’s name on a parking ticket when they’re not there. It was a rental car in John Kerry’s name, used by all his staff; ergo, the tickets were placed in his name after they went unpaid long enough that the court looked up the registered owner of the vehicle, contacted said rental agency, and found it was in his nominal posession on those dates.
Look at big stuff. If this is all the GOP can dig up on Dems on a Tuesday (or whatever) then we’re looking better all the time.
Oh, and BTW, Bush sank several businesses, and never earned a dime of his own either. Who cares that neither one knows real work? They didn’t even show a major concern over who had real military experience.
Are you calling Becky GOP for thinking those 300 bucks were not properly spent? wow..
Pork, the Dems do it, the Reps do it, the constitutents expect it.. are all guilty. Now if you want to see the Democracts do goofy, shady things, just look at California politics, the examples <i>abound</i>!
Dude, I was ticked about that stupid haircut. Really really ticked.
In terms of the “how much dirt was dug today?” train of thought, I’m not a big fan. I don’t look at the Repubs and the Dems as mortal enemies, but more like two bickering old ladies who don’t always get along, but if they ever agree, you’d better watch yourself. The us/them thing is not entirely helpful.
Although, I have to admit, making fun of John Kerry and his parking tickets is mildly fun, as was George Bush choking on a pretzel. lol!
Kerry’s bumbling now only further cements why he didn’t become president though. What a piss poor PR move! Next thing you know, he’ll be out in the streets dressed like a whigger with gold chains trying to bond with the street crowd because he was put down by the man. ;)
Of course I wasn’t calling Becky a GOP member. Just because she thinks it was shady, as do a lot of liberals and conservatives alike, it doesn’t automatically align her with the ‘Pubs. I like guns, want to own and carry one (with proper licensing and training) and I think that beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt guilty murderers (especially admitted ones) should get the needle; and I’m still firmly planted on the left of the fence. My only point was that it’s a relatively insignificant thing to throw such a tantrum over, since it could be argued as a legitimate expenditure (watch me play devil’s advocate even though I’m just a poor liberal) and the fact that Kerry is independently wealthy has nary a whit to do with whether or not the allotment of a small part of his campaign funds (some of which were actually his money, ya know) could justifiably go to pay off parking tickets accrued by his campaign staff while on the trail. If he hadn’t been campaigning there, he wouldn’t have gotten the tickets. (Yes, I am aware his staff members could have been more careful about parking or feeding the meter, but sometimes those things are unavoidable.) If a person trips on a branch laying on the sidewalk and breaks an ankle, while posting flyers for his company while on the clock, he can get workers comp. His company’s funds will cover it, because he was there on their behalf in the first place. If he tripped on self-same branch on his own time, he’d be SOL (barring any massive lawsuit effort against the city, which is seldom won.) I try to avoid the temptation to say “Greedy bastard rich fucker!” because one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on, or acting like I am more obligated to pay for all my own shit, and theirs, too, even if it’s a writeoff for everyone else.
Bumbling? You ever run a huge campaign? It probably wasn’t even he himself who wrote the check, but someone in his office. Sometimes people don’t put that much forethought into what might be made into bad PR. Kerry didn’t get the presidency for other reasons; not because he’s an idiot.
<i>..one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on</i>
I agree with you on that one, most Republicans do :) but a loft of people out there, particularly Democrats, are a little more skeptical on letting me spend my money in whatever I want.
May 4th, 2005 at 11:16:07 am
Oh the Hugh Manatee!
May 4th, 2005 at 12:06:26 pm
Lol kristy! Brendan, the guy is a billionare! Could he just sneeze some money on a policeman or something? This is what I bitch about all the time with freakin stupid ass other people. There’s this sense of entitlement. Like, oh, I’m special, I can cut your off in traffic and never pay parking tickets. I can pay taxes in the 10% bracket even though I have a billion dollars and brag about how I want to help the poor.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
that is all.
May 4th, 2005 at 2:25:49 pm
Well, yeah . . . but I had a car in Boston for two weeks the entire time I lived there and managed to ring up $100 in parking tickets and still have no idea how.
May 4th, 2005 at 2:32:59 pm
Even if you had tons of cash, would you want to write a personal check to foot the bill for your staffers’ every tiny screwup? Rich people stay rich by saving. I work with 40 engineers making six-figure salaries, or close to, and they have all fought little battles with management to be provided desk lamps. Ten dollar desk lamps. I can buy a freakin’ ten dollar desk lamp, and would before I went harping on my boss, but the fact that I pay for everything I see, eat, do, or wear myself is one of the reasons I don’t have a savings account. It is part of travel and expense, and the ballgame was a campaign publicity event; hence the usage of campaign funds. What do you think those pay for, anyway? Posterboard and Sharpies? Small potatoes. Now, the Lear jet to the Carribbean for pina coladas? That I’d have a problem with.
May 4th, 2005 at 3:16:15 pm
Dude, Val, that’s crap and you know it. First of all, the tickets are not written to Kerry’s campaign, they are written to Kerry, as is public record. Secondly, if Kerry needed a friggin lamp for his office, he could pay his servant’s servant to get it for him. Or make the gov’t do so. The fact is, when person X donated $20 of their money to Kerry’s campaign, they didn’t want it to go to pay off his parking tickets. It’s dishonest and people like me, who would donate to a political campain and earn less in a year than Kerry earns in interest on his investments in two weeks have every right to be pissed off by the man’s greed. Kerry has every right to say he should get office supplies like paper and such as the rest of the Senate does as well. But really, he shouldn’t STEAL money from people to pay a debt like that. To someone like Kerry, $300 is completely insignificant. He makes more money than that when he brushes his teeth in the morning as his investments grow. To someone like me, $300 is like a miniature fortune! Seriously, the idea of getting $300 for free is like a dream!
And Kerry NEVER GOT RICH BY DOING ANYTHING. He married into wealth. The money and privileges he enjoys because of that wealth were earned by a dead man.
Honestly Val, if Cheney racked up a parking ticket and used public funds to pay for it, you would be having kittens.
Okay, I’m still stuck on the $300 thing. Could you imagine how many buttons that is? I bet that would rent a pretty nice billboard for a week.
I know it would buy almost 10 40lb bags of dog food or 60 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (mmmmsugar). If I had $300 bucks, Brendan knows I would spend it on coral. That’s so true too. Lol! Coral and take-out. mwahaha. Brendan would buy computer gizmos. Or he would buy suits. Or he’d put it away for a rainy day.
why am i suddenly thinking about the lottery again? lol!
May 4th, 2005 at 4:16:01 pm
Coral, eh? Interesting. My $300 would go to either a new cell phone (mine is a breaking, flimsy piece of doodoostuff!) or digital camera, and some threads for my son. I don’t have kittens over even Dick Cheney misappropriating $300, because it’s not worth my breath when so much large scale pork barrel crap floats right by each and every day. I threw fits over the $25 million Creationism museum (You could feed a lot of children for that). I hacked up a furball or two over some extraordinarily costly restorations made to some crappy, small town statues. I think we have done quite a bit more research into the mating habits of lake trout than was called for. $300 is a lot to me, but I didn’t fuss over Clinton’s $300 haircut (remember that?) even though it was ridiculous. And the tickets weren’t caused by him: You can’t put a person’s name on a parking ticket when they’re not there. It was a rental car in John Kerry’s name, used by all his staff; ergo, the tickets were placed in his name after they went unpaid long enough that the court looked up the registered owner of the vehicle, contacted said rental agency, and found it was in his nominal posession on those dates.
Look at big stuff. If this is all the GOP can dig up on Dems on a Tuesday (or whatever) then we’re looking better all the time.
May 4th, 2005 at 4:16:07 pm
Oh the Hugh Manatee!
May 4th, 2005 at 4:19:02 pm
Oh, and BTW, Bush sank several businesses, and never earned a dime of his own either. Who cares that neither one knows real work? They didn’t even show a major concern over who had real military experience.
May 4th, 2005 at 5:06:26 pm
Lol kristy! Brendan, the guy is a billionare! Could he just sneeze some money on a policeman or something? This is what I bitch about all the time with freakin stupid ass other people. There’s this sense of entitlement. Like, oh, I’m special, I can cut your off in traffic and never pay parking tickets. I can pay taxes in the 10% bracket even though I have a billion dollars and brag about how I want to help the poor.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
that is all.
May 4th, 2005 at 5:14:02 pm
Are you calling Becky GOP for thinking those 300 bucks were not properly spent? wow..
Pork, the Dems do it, the Reps do it, the constitutents expect it.. are all guilty. Now if you want to see the Democracts do goofy, shady things, just look at California politics, the examples abound!
May 4th, 2005 at 5:47:32 pm
Dude, I was ticked about that stupid haircut. Really really ticked.
In terms of the “how much dirt was dug today?” train of thought, I’m not a big fan. I don’t look at the Repubs and the Dems as mortal enemies, but more like two bickering old ladies who don’t always get along, but if they ever agree, you’d better watch yourself. The us/them thing is not entirely helpful.
Although, I have to admit, making fun of John Kerry and his parking tickets is mildly fun, as was George Bush choking on a pretzel. lol!
Kerry’s bumbling now only further cements why he didn’t become president though. What a piss poor PR move! Next thing you know, he’ll be out in the streets dressed like a whigger with gold chains trying to bond with the street crowd because he was put down by the man. ;)
May 4th, 2005 at 5:49:01 pm
Of course I wasn’t calling Becky a GOP member. Just because she thinks it was shady, as do a lot of liberals and conservatives alike, it doesn’t automatically align her with the ‘Pubs. I like guns, want to own and carry one (with proper licensing and training) and I think that beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt guilty murderers (especially admitted ones) should get the needle; and I’m still firmly planted on the left of the fence. My only point was that it’s a relatively insignificant thing to throw such a tantrum over, since it could be argued as a legitimate expenditure (watch me play devil’s advocate even though I’m just a poor liberal) and the fact that Kerry is independently wealthy has nary a whit to do with whether or not the allotment of a small part of his campaign funds (some of which were actually his money, ya know) could justifiably go to pay off parking tickets accrued by his campaign staff while on the trail. If he hadn’t been campaigning there, he wouldn’t have gotten the tickets. (Yes, I am aware his staff members could have been more careful about parking or feeding the meter, but sometimes those things are unavoidable.) If a person trips on a branch laying on the sidewalk and breaks an ankle, while posting flyers for his company while on the clock, he can get workers comp. His company’s funds will cover it, because he was there on their behalf in the first place. If he tripped on self-same branch on his own time, he’d be SOL (barring any massive lawsuit effort against the city, which is seldom won.) I try to avoid the temptation to say “Greedy bastard rich fucker!” because one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on, or acting like I am more obligated to pay for all my own shit, and theirs, too, even if it’s a writeoff for everyone else.
May 4th, 2005 at 5:51:41 pm
Bumbling? You ever run a huge campaign? It probably wasn’t even he himself who wrote the check, but someone in his office. Sometimes people don’t put that much forethought into what might be made into bad PR. Kerry didn’t get the presidency for other reasons; not because he’s an idiot.
May 4th, 2005 at 5:58:13 pm
..one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on
I agree with you on that one, most Republicans do :) but a loft of people out there, particularly Democrats, are a little more skeptical on letting me spend my money in whatever I want.
May 4th, 2005 at 7:25:49 pm
Well, yeah . . . but I had a car in Boston for two weeks the entire time I lived there and managed to ring up $100 in parking tickets and still have no idea how.
May 4th, 2005 at 7:32:59 pm
Even if you had tons of cash, would you want to write a personal check to foot the bill for your staffers’ every tiny screwup? Rich people stay rich by saving. I work with 40 engineers making six-figure salaries, or close to, and they have all fought little battles with management to be provided desk lamps. Ten dollar desk lamps. I can buy a freakin’ ten dollar desk lamp, and would before I went harping on my boss, but the fact that I pay for everything I see, eat, do, or wear myself is one of the reasons I don’t have a savings account. It is part of travel and expense, and the ballgame was a campaign publicity event; hence the usage of campaign funds. What do you think those pay for, anyway? Posterboard and Sharpies? Small potatoes. Now, the Lear jet to the Carribbean for pina coladas? That I’d have a problem with.
May 4th, 2005 at 8:16:15 pm
Dude, Val, that’s crap and you know it. First of all, the tickets are not written to Kerry’s campaign, they are written to Kerry, as is public record. Secondly, if Kerry needed a friggin lamp for his office, he could pay his servant’s servant to get it for him. Or make the gov’t do so. The fact is, when person X donated $20 of their money to Kerry’s campaign, they didn’t want it to go to pay off his parking tickets. It’s dishonest and people like me, who would donate to a political campain and earn less in a year than Kerry earns in interest on his investments in two weeks have every right to be pissed off by the man’s greed. Kerry has every right to say he should get office supplies like paper and such as the rest of the Senate does as well. But really, he shouldn’t STEAL money from people to pay a debt like that. To someone like Kerry, $300 is completely insignificant. He makes more money than that when he brushes his teeth in the morning as his investments grow. To someone like me, $300 is like a miniature fortune! Seriously, the idea of getting $300 for free is like a dream!
And Kerry NEVER GOT RICH BY DOING ANYTHING. He married into wealth. The money and privileges he enjoys because of that wealth were earned by a dead man.
Honestly Val, if Cheney racked up a parking ticket and used public funds to pay for it, you would be having kittens.
Okay, I’m still stuck on the $300 thing. Could you imagine how many buttons that is? I bet that would rent a pretty nice billboard for a week.
I know it would buy almost 10 40lb bags of dog food or 60 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (mmmmsugar). If I had $300 bucks, Brendan knows I would spend it on coral. That’s so true too. Lol! Coral and take-out. mwahaha. Brendan would buy computer gizmos. Or he would buy suits. Or he’d put it away for a rainy day.
why am i suddenly thinking about the lottery again? lol!
May 4th, 2005 at 9:16:01 pm
Coral, eh? Interesting. My $300 would go to either a new cell phone (mine is a breaking, flimsy piece of doodoostuff!) or digital camera, and some threads for my son. I don’t have kittens over even Dick Cheney misappropriating $300, because it’s not worth my breath when so much large scale pork barrel crap floats right by each and every day. I threw fits over the $25 million Creationism museum (You could feed a lot of children for that). I hacked up a furball or two over some extraordinarily costly restorations made to some crappy, small town statues. I think we have done quite a bit more research into the mating habits of lake trout than was called for. $300 is a lot to me, but I didn’t fuss over Clinton’s $300 haircut (remember that?) even though it was ridiculous. And the tickets weren’t caused by him: You can’t put a person’s name on a parking ticket when they’re not there. It was a rental car in John Kerry’s name, used by all his staff; ergo, the tickets were placed in his name after they went unpaid long enough that the court looked up the registered owner of the vehicle, contacted said rental agency, and found it was in his nominal posession on those dates.
Look at big stuff. If this is all the GOP can dig up on Dems on a Tuesday (or whatever) then we’re looking better all the time.
May 4th, 2005 at 9:19:02 pm
Oh, and BTW, Bush sank several businesses, and never earned a dime of his own either. Who cares that neither one knows real work? They didn’t even show a major concern over who had real military experience.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:14:02 pm
Are you calling Becky GOP for thinking those 300 bucks were not properly spent? wow..
Pork, the Dems do it, the Reps do it, the constitutents expect it.. are all guilty. Now if you want to see the Democracts do goofy, shady things, just look at California politics, the examples <i>abound</i>!
May 4th, 2005 at 10:47:32 pm
Dude, I was ticked about that stupid haircut. Really really ticked.
In terms of the “how much dirt was dug today?” train of thought, I’m not a big fan. I don’t look at the Repubs and the Dems as mortal enemies, but more like two bickering old ladies who don’t always get along, but if they ever agree, you’d better watch yourself. The us/them thing is not entirely helpful.
Although, I have to admit, making fun of John Kerry and his parking tickets is mildly fun, as was George Bush choking on a pretzel. lol!
Kerry’s bumbling now only further cements why he didn’t become president though. What a piss poor PR move! Next thing you know, he’ll be out in the streets dressed like a whigger with gold chains trying to bond with the street crowd because he was put down by the man. ;)
May 4th, 2005 at 10:49:01 pm
Of course I wasn’t calling Becky a GOP member. Just because she thinks it was shady, as do a lot of liberals and conservatives alike, it doesn’t automatically align her with the ‘Pubs. I like guns, want to own and carry one (with proper licensing and training) and I think that beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt guilty murderers (especially admitted ones) should get the needle; and I’m still firmly planted on the left of the fence. My only point was that it’s a relatively insignificant thing to throw such a tantrum over, since it could be argued as a legitimate expenditure (watch me play devil’s advocate even though I’m just a poor liberal) and the fact that Kerry is independently wealthy has nary a whit to do with whether or not the allotment of a small part of his campaign funds (some of which were actually his money, ya know) could justifiably go to pay off parking tickets accrued by his campaign staff while on the trail. If he hadn’t been campaigning there, he wouldn’t have gotten the tickets. (Yes, I am aware his staff members could have been more careful about parking or feeding the meter, but sometimes those things are unavoidable.) If a person trips on a branch laying on the sidewalk and breaks an ankle, while posting flyers for his company while on the clock, he can get workers comp. His company’s funds will cover it, because he was there on their behalf in the first place. If he tripped on self-same branch on his own time, he’d be SOL (barring any massive lawsuit effort against the city, which is seldom won.) I try to avoid the temptation to say “Greedy bastard rich fucker!” because one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on, or acting like I am more obligated to pay for all my own shit, and theirs, too, even if it’s a writeoff for everyone else.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:51:41 pm
Bumbling? You ever run a huge campaign? It probably wasn’t even he himself who wrote the check, but someone in his office. Sometimes people don’t put that much forethought into what might be made into bad PR. Kerry didn’t get the presidency for other reasons; not because he’s an idiot.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:58:13 pm
<i>..one day I might make a fortune, and when I do, I don’t want other people telling me what I have to spend it on</i>
I agree with you on that one, most Republicans do :) but a loft of people out there, particularly Democrats, are a little more skeptical on letting me spend my money in whatever I want.
May 5th, 2005 at 8:17:07 pm
“Best of the Web” says you can expect to see ads against Kerry (if he runs in ‘08) from Meter Maids for Truth.
May 6th, 2005 at 1:17:07 am
“Best of the Web” says you can expect to see ads against Kerry (if he runs in ‘08) from Meter Maids for Truth.