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My Back Pages: Foley had sex with page (L.A. Times)

In a breaking story, the L.A. times is reporting that:

A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to make direct advances.  Read more 

Our house is a very very very fine house

Malkin says:

Why publish maps and specific street names and photographs of the private (not anymore) homes where the Vice President and Defense Secretary and their families spend their vacations?

Why?

Because blabbermouth Bill Keller feels like it, right? (Interesting timing, no?)

Because the “people” (you know: Code Pink, Fred Phelps, jihadis) have a “right to know,” right?  Read more 

Limbaugh: "I'm gonna give you my love"


Rush Limbaugh, pictured after being detained at Palm Beach International airport for possession of prescription drugs.  Read more 

They're livin' it up at the Hotel California

Do we need any more evidence that California screwed up really badly when electing Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor? Just in case anyone out there still thinks he’s:

  1. Competent
  2. Compassionate
  3. Honest: “As you know, I don’t need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people.”
  4. Altruistic: “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” –in a 1990 interview with U.S. News

Well, you might want to look at this SF Chronicle article:  Read more 

Big ol’ jet airliner, don’t carry me too far away

More evidence, from the AFL-CIO, that the War On Terra©™ is complete fiction:

Yesterday, the same day a House committee recommended the Dubai port deal be scrapped, the House Appropriations Committee directed the Bush administration to freeze for 120 days its plan for foreign control of the nation’s airlines.

Read on:  Read more 

He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude

It didn’t take long for the bed wetters to start Swift Boating Feingold. In the 2nd irregular (and I don’t mean in the “Honey, where’s the Ex-Lax?” way) edition of Right Is Wrong, we find this gem, from the un-ironically named Conservative Voice [DCOW]:

Is Senator Russ Feingold A Traitor?  Read more 

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?

From the almost always civilized Professor Bainbridge:

In the first place, Bush likely didn’t go to the funeral “simply … to pay his respects.” Bush undoubtedly had a political motive for attending. Second, so he got harangued? It’s small cheese compared to the political purposes to which some funerals have been put:

From some commentors to the Prof:  Read more