And it has ever been that way, dori. That's one of the reasons that I've been so heavily involved on this thread for quite a few years now. These vile, venal vermin are literally the worst people in the world. They are thieves, liars and hypocrites. I have done everything in my power to rip off their fright-masks and reveal them to every voter as the evil that they truly are.

Voter ID Bill-Sponsoring Ohio Politician Faces Further Outrage Over DUI/ Viagra Incident



The Republican speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives wants a fellow Republican legislator who sponsored a voter ID bill and was charged with drunk driving to resign from his seat.

Speaker William G. Batchelder said that he doesn't think Rep. Robert Mecklenborg will "come back to the capitol building," Jim Siegel of the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Mecklenborg was arrested back in April on drunk driving charges in neighboring Indiana while he had a 26-year-old woman in the car with him. He failed several field sobriety tests and refused to take a breath test. A blood test indicated he had Viagra in his system. Video of his arrest was later released by the Dearborn County Prosecutor's Office.

But reports of his arrest didn't emerge until late June, after Mecklenborg had sponsored a strict photo-ID requirement. Ironically, under Indiana's DUI law, Mecklenborg's license was likely confiscated and suspended.

Just as Mecklenborg's future is unclear, so is the future of the voter ID measure he sponsored. As the Dispatch reported:

House leaders wanted to get a photo ID requirement passed, but the two chambers do not agree on how strict to make it. The House wants a photo ID to be required, while the Senate has proposed alternatives that would allow voters to cast provisional ballots if they don't have a photo ID.

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Ah, yes, Catherine. Ask and ye shall receive...



Doncha LOVE it?

dori--

I was pretty harsh and uncompromising in my previous post dated Sat. July, 16 because those miserable God-forsaken Republicans had just offended my sensibilities yet again. Do you want to know some of the roots of that righteous, boiling wrath?

I would ask you to look back upon the writings of a man named Dr. Hunter S. Thompson who started out with Rolling Stone Magazine when the magazine itself was getting under way back in the mid-to-late 1960's. I began reading his work then and continued until I sadly had to stop when he died in 2005, an apparent suicide. He taught me that teeth-clenching outrage, that deep and inflexible devotion to principle that I carry with me to this day.

Following is an edited extract from a piece he published in one of his last books, Kingdom of Fear. This was written in 2001 about George W. Bush and I would caution you that it contains strong language unfit for many younger persons and those of delicate sensibilities...


"Let's face it, the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what
he is told to do, says what he is told to say, poses the way he is told to pose. He is a fool.

No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time, when the last
living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus
rich kid in charge of the White House.

Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters, it is where the heart of America lives.
So if the president lies and acts giddy about other people's lives, if he wantonly and stupidly
endorses mass murder by definition, he must be a loud and meaningless animal with no functional
intelligence and no balls.

See you tomorrow, folks. You haven't heard the last of me. I am the one who speaks for the spirit of
freedom and decency in you. Shit. Somebody has to do it. We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan.

I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not..."

I must admit that I cheered out loud when I read that, but I should have said it myself, dori, because that's EXACTLY how I feel.

REPUBLICANS MAKE LOUSY HUSBANDS, TOO!


The wife of state Sen. Kris Jordan called 911 after a domestic-violence incident at their home near Powell last week. Jordan, 34, was elected to the Ohio Senate in November, serving Delaware, Knox, Morrow, Richland and part of Ashland counties. He previously served as a Delaware County commissioner and a state representative.

Delaware County Recorder Melissa Jordan, 31, called 911 just before 11 p.m. on July 11, at first hanging up after reaching a dispatcher. When the dispatcher called back, Melissa Jordan said breathlessly, "Just please get somebody here ... My husband, please."

"This is the first time I've called," she said. "He's done this a lot. I can't put up with this anymore."

"He's had some drinks," she said. "He was pushing me around, throwing stuff. Because I called you, he wants - he says it's over."

He's probably LYING so she'd better get out while the gettin's good! She will wonder why the hell she put up with it as long as she did once she's away from his power and influence.

I think you're absolutely right, Catherine...but if this dirtbag has her completely buffaloed, getting away from him is going to be easier said than done. These control freaks are bad, bad people...

Shitheads? That's what I have been calling Rs and sometimes Blue Dogs for a very long time now. Didn't know anyone else did though. I am in good company, eh?

And yes, the people of this area love all the cruelty, stupidity and viciousness of the rightwingers. I love this area, but can't stand the people. They are unbelievable.



Absolutely he is lying! The only way she can stay safe is to get as far away from him as possible. In his mind he 'owns' her and can do anything he darn well pleases! I wish her luck.

How Hershey charity director fees rose to half a million

When Leroy S. Zimmerman was named in late 2002 to the board of the small state-chartered Pennsylvania bank that managed the assets of the Hershey charity for disadvantaged youth, the post paid about $35,000 a year and came with restrictions.

Governance reforms to take effect the next year would limit Zimmerman, a former attorney general and powerful Republican, to only that one fee-paying board in the Hershey charitable realm. But this would change. In June 2003, Mike Fisher, then the attorney general, ended the one-board limit.

Within four years, Zimmerman had added two additional fee-paying Hershey boards to his portfolio of responsibilities and his compensation soared into the hundreds of thousands of dollars....

MORE AT THE LINK!

dori--

Dr. Hunter s. Thompson was generally much, much lighter than that; in fact, he was often so hilarious that he made me laugh too hard to inhale. (Read his Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas for any number of examples...and I don't hean just that polite "lol" that people put into their comments; I'm talking about deep and lusty belly-laughs!) Hunter had a wild, brilliant writing style as well as mad skills that went hand-in-hand with his deep feelings of outrage and unfairness; he was on the White House lawn when Richard Nixon got into the helicopter and left town after Watergate, for example.

It was my pleasure and privilege to introduce you to a man whom I personally loved dearly and who I miss all the time even yet. He left us much too soon. Look him up in wikipedia if you are so inclined and see what a truly amazing man he really was.

And you could do worse than reading some of his work, too...

AOM...do you think Dr. Thompson really committed suicide?

Catherine, I haven't got enough time on this library computer to answer your very excellent question right now. Let me get back to you on that, okay?

The short answer is that I'm not at all sure and i don't want to spread conspiracy rumors...

Sure...and you can send me your theory in a private message, if you'd like!