Neocon senator busted for being a pervert

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Republican “moral values” crusaders who condemn, and demonize, those of us unbound by archaic mores and free to be who our god, or simply nature, meant us to be, it’s that they think, by some special dispensation, they’re above the law — be it man’s law, or God’s law.

Isn’t it fascinating that Chuck himself, on the welcome page of the official Web site of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, wrote this:

We expect not only competence but also professionalism and an absolute commitment to the ends of securing justice without regard to status, race, gender, or national origin, or the prominence of either the victims of crime or those charged with crimes.

“Status, race, gender, or national origin,” we understand. But what’s the phrase “prominence of either the victims of crime or those charged with crimes” doing there?

Attorney and Houston City Council member Jolanda ‘Jo’ Jones provides the answer:

Those who work at the Harris County Courthouse every day have seen … a pattern of bias against minorities and the poor. When the defendant is African-American or Hispanic, Rosenthal’s attorneys strike most, if not all, blacks and Hispanics off the jury.

. . .

Many of my colleagues and I have observed that Rosenthal’s prosecutors routinely request and receive harsher punishments for minorities and the poor than they do for others who are charged with like behavior.

Take, for example, the gang of four middle- and upper-class teen-age girls, all from Kingwood, who called themselves the “Queens of Armed Robbery.” They robbed store clerks because they were bored and wanted money to buy cigarettes and beer.

The most severe punishment doled out was seven years in prison, while the sweetest deal was boot camp for one of the robbers where the judge attended the graduation. Imagine that.

Then there was the unheard and untold story of a young black boy, an honor roll student who was either 16 or 17 at the time he committed robbery, and who was sentenced … [to] Thirty-five years.

I am not condoning robbery of any kind, but the disparity in punishment is appalling.

Then there’s the case of Farrah Fawcett’s son. …

. . .

This inequality is not new, and I am not the first to call attention to it. But I do know what I’m talking about. In 2002, I helped organize the peaceful protest of the criminal courts building that stated then what people are finding out now: Justice for minorities and the poor is fleeting at best and nonexistent at worst.

. . .

Even today, many defense attorneys will tell you that the “scientists” who routinely testify for Rosenthal’s office almost always run tests to support his office’s theory of the case, regardless of truth. They test to convict; not to seek the truth. (See the case of poor Josiah Sutton and others like him.)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0522081saints1.html

It's Larry Craig "Bobblefoot" Day!

Minor league promotion is homage to senator's airport bathroom bust...

Originally posted by Robtard
I couldn't care less that he wanted anonymous gay-sex, but there are indecency laws for a reason, otherwise people would be having sex in front of pre-shools.

Craig should have really been more discrete and used his home, a hotel room, someone else's house etc. etc. etc. to engage in his adulterous homosexual activities.

You're mistaken...a homosexual isn't a person.

Originally posted by UKR
You're mistaken...a homosexual isn't a person.

Originally posted by Strangelove
Hahaha, fck you.

Thus making you both nonpeople. The perfect crime.

Originally posted by Strangelove
Hahaha, fck you.

He's trolling at something I said 9 months ago, silly sock. Pay him no mind.

Originally posted by Strangelove
Hahaha, fck you.

"Strangelove"? More like Gaylove. You should change the thing where it says your gender to "all-woman". You hairless 20 lb ladyboy. Does it make you feel like a real woman when your father and older brothers inseminate your boypussy every morning, noon and night? Do they make regular sperm donations into your ass and mouth? My left nut weighs more than you.

Originally posted by UKR
"Strangelove"? More like Gaylove. You should change the thing where it says your gender to "all-woman". You hairless 20 lb ladyboy. Does it make you feel like a real woman when your father and older brothers inseminate your boypussy every morning, noon and night? Do they make regular sperm donations into your ass and mouth? My left nut weighs more than you.

Originally posted by Strangelove
reported

I wouldn't worry too much. A moderator will pass through eventually and it's apparent to everyone that he is a sock. It will be dealt with.

Strangy, what's funny, he uses extremely detailed homosexual and incestual descreptions while insulting you for such.

Just another sock, probably from some buthurt regular poster. Have you shown anyone to be an idiot lately?

Originally posted by Devil King
I wouldn't worry too much. A moderator will pass through eventually and it's apparent to everyone that he is a sock. It will be dealt with.

Originally posted by UKR
"Strangelove"? More like Gaylove. You should change the thing where it says your gender to "all-woman". You hairless 20 lb ladyboy. Does it make you feel like a real woman when your father and older brothers inseminate your boypussy every morning, noon and night? Do they make regular sperm donations into your ass and mouth? My left nut weighs more than you.

LOL!

He isn't a toothpick, dude. 😉 Hey weight 20 lbs, maybe in his pants.

"Charges Against Foley Unlikely" The Associated Press

West Palm Beach, FL—After an exhaustive two-year investigation, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn’t expected to face charges for sending salacious messages to underage pages, two federal law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press.

Results of a state investigation were to be announced Friday. An FBI investigation hasn’t been closed, but the officials said neither state nor federal charges were expected. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

Foley resigned in 2006 after being confronted with the e-mails and instant messages he sent to pages. He has been under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI.

Foley’s attorney, David Roth, has acknowledged that Foley sent the messages to the teens, but says the Florida Republican never had inappropriate contact with minors. Roth had no comment on the pending announcement.

In the wake of Foley’s resignation, Roth announced Foley was gay and had been molested by a priest as a teenage altar boy. Foley also checked himself into an Arizona treatment facility for what his attorneys called “alcoholism and other behavioral problems.”

Foley represented parts of Palm Beach County for 12 years. He has kept a low profile since emerging from rehabilitation late last year but occasionally has been seen in the Palm Beach area, where he lives with his boyfriend.

Foley was seen as a shoo-in for re-election in 2006. His resignation received national attention as Democrats were trying to regain power in the House. Democrat Tim Mahoney won the election after Republicans had just weeks to select a new candidate to replace Foley, whose name remained on the ballot.

Then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), and other Republican leaders were criticized for their handling of the Foley matter. Hastert claimed he did not learn of Foley’s explicit messages until the scandal broke. However, a House ethics committee concluded in December 2006 that Hastert actually had heard about the messages months earlier, as had other Republicans, but the panel did not find that anyone broke rules.

Florida authorities were hampered in their investigation because neither Foley nor the House would let investigators examine his congressional computers.

In a letter to the FDLE obtained by The Associated Press, House Deputy General Counsel Kerry Kircher wrote that because the data “may contain legislative information that is constitutionally privileged … and because Mr. Foley has not waived that privilege . . . we cannot simply give you access.”

The state also later reached out to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeking help to examine the computers, but were rebuffed again.

The Florida agency had been working with the FBI and Foley’s attorneys to gain access to information on the computers. Foley’s attorneys have declined to comment throughout the investigation.

Foley himself was the only person who could release the computers for review, but he had refused. It was not immediately clear what information from the computers investigators had been able to review—if any—before finishing their investigation.

House officials said they did not find any sexually explicit photos in a review of some e-mails Foley sent and received through his congressional account, but the e-mails did not include all of Foley’s communications.

Some may have been deleted from the main congressional computer server but would likely still have been accessible from an examination of the actual computer hard drives.

I'm surprised, I would have thought that after his "treatment", he would have emerged clean and straight; all thanks to finding the Jesus, not gay.

"Senator Larry Craig Launches Fund for Legal Challenge" Dan Popkey

Sen. Larry Craig says the Senate Ethics Committee has cleared him to form a legal expense fund to back his year-long effort to reverse his guilty plea for misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Craig calls the new fundraising committee the Fund for Justice, according to Congressional Quarterly.

Craig told CQ on Thursday that he's soliciting donations.

"I'm working at it now," said the Idaho Republican who is retiring in January after 28 years in Congress.

In February, the Ethics Committee said Craig broke a Senate rule by failing to seek the committee's permission before spending about $213,000 in leftover campaign money to try to overturn his plea and clear his name. The unanimous committee also found that Craig's behavior before and after his June 2007 arrest in a gay-sex sting in a Minnesota airport men's room was "improper conduct" reflecting poorly on the Senate.

Craig tried to "evade legal consequences" for his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge by trying to keep the arrest secret and attempting to withdraw his plea only after it became public, the bipartisan committee wrote on Feb. 13.

Following that admonishment, Craig stopped draining his campaign fund. Now, he is free to raise funds for his legal challenge. Last week, Craig's lawyers argued before the Minnesota Court of Appeals that he should be allowed to withdraw his plea. A decision is expected before year's end. Whatever the court decides, the case could be appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Disclosure of who has contributed to the new fund through Sept. 30 will come Oct. 15, when Craig will be required to file his first quarterly report detailing the activity of the Fund for Justice.