In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on Friday, April 25 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in a sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until AFTER the November election!
While Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore, Ed Rendell, Barabara Streisand, Cher, Stan Lee, Brad Pitt, Mike Wallace, Larry King et al may be called to testify and be deposed starting in May, Hillary alone has been protected from explaining her role in her husband’s fraud charges.
Did he or didn’t he fill out the questionnaire is the question from Politico.com:
During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion — positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he has projected during his presidential campaign.
The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.
I’m starting to see a dangerous trend from the good Senator. Fox News needs to ditch the “Obama Watch” counter they’ve been running and add an “aid blame” counter. How many times has he blamed a lack of knowledge of what’s going on in his campaign for a misstep or mistake? If he can’t keep up with what’s happening in his campaign, can he be expected to keep up with the world once he holds the most powerful job on the planet? Would Hillary get away with replying to a hard question with, “Gee, I don’t know. One of my aids must have done that.”
You may recall that I predicted an Obama victory yesterday in Pennsylvania. Naturally, I didn’t believe he would win. But I wanted to trick Democrats in Pennsylvania into thinking that I did. I wanted to send them into the voting booths and vote for Hillary just to prove me wrong.
Sigh. Not a whole lot to say about this, but it does strike me as a bit childish to pull this "I just wanted you to think that’s what I was thinking" stuff at this point in the game. In the world of talking heads we live in, it’s not too much to ask that you simply admit when you’re wrong. It’ll be forgotten the next day anyway.
Great questions…why can’t we vote? Call your representative. If you’re in the Fightin’ 33rd here in Tennessee like me your rep is Jim Hackworth: rep.jim.hackworth@legislature.state.tn.us, (865) 482-2455.
Of course I don’t expect that news outlets are going to go back and redact their redaction, but here’s the truth from Yale’s new artistic treasure, Aliza Shvarts:
According to a statement released by the University today, Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught.
The supposed senior art project of the Davenport College senior was a “creative fiction,” a Yale official said Thursday afternoon as students on campus and bloggers across the country expressed colossal outrage over what Shvarts described as a documentation of a nine-month process during which she claimed to have artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking “abortifacient drugs” to induce miscarriages.
“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body,” Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said in a written statement e-mailed to the News this afternoon.
But Shvarts stood by her project, calling the University’s statement “ultimately inaccurate.”
Various news outlets this morning are reporting on San Fran’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that Roommates.com can’t ask if you’re straight or gay when you fill out their profile page on the site:
To inquire electronically about sexual orientation would not be different from asking people in person or by telephone if they were black or Jewish before conducting business, the panel said in an 8-3 ruling that partly overturns a lower federal court decision.
“If such screening is prohibited when practiced in person or by telephone, we see no reason why Congress would have wanted to make it lawful to profit from it online,” 9th Circuit chief judge Alex Kozinski wrote. “Not only does Roommate ask these questions, Roommate makes answering the discriminatory questions a condition of doing business.”
Since when did “homosexual” become a race? Have homosexuals, on the whole, ever been denied the right to vote? Have they been forced to the back of the bus? Do suicide bombers attack them in the market place? Did Hitler exterminate 6 million of them?
Secondly, some liberals are so racist and bigoted that they can’t see straight (no pun intended). They say that homosexuality is no big deal, but then absolutely freak out—we’re talking take it through the courts freak out—when someone asks if they’re homosexual.
What I mean is that homosexuals will often say that they’re proud — they’ll go to a gay pride event, they’ll hang a multi-color lei from rear view mirror, etc — but when you ask them outright their orientation they suddenly become angry and view it as discrimination.
I don’t think it’s an unfair question to ask if your potential roommate may or may not be attracted to your gender. You can ask male and female, and this pertinent question exists because of sex. It is called your “sex” after all. In simpler times I would know it was inappropriate, as a man, to consider a woman as a roommate for sexual reasons. Today, that’s simply not enough information to make the decision. Is it unreasonable to want to know this? Is it any more discriminatory than asking your gender these days?
I’m expanding on this because I received a call from a friend of mine who was confused by the tone of the message, so let me say two things: 1.) ALL liberals are not anything, any more than ALL conservatives are anything. I don’t want to insinuate that all liberals are racist bigots just as I don’t want anyone to insinuate that all conservatives are racist bigots, and I don’t want to fall into the name-calling trap that many of my conservative friends do; 2.) I’m not ant-homosexual. I think homosexuality is a sin, but I also think fornication, envy, and drunkenness are sins, too. I’m not rejecting the person or that person’s rights as defined by the laws of this country. What I DO reject is special consideration and special treatment and special laws.
The bottom line for me is that giving homosexuality the same protection and classification as race is a consideration that isn’t merited by the evidence.
Look’s like Sen. Woodson has some competition this year:
Republican state Sen. Jamie Woodson will have no opponent in the GOP primary for re-election to her 6th District seat, but she will face a Democrat, Gary Farmer, in the November general election, based on petitions filed with the Knox County Election Commission by today’s noon deadline.
If a Democrat fills her seat he might support expansion of Pre-K programs, engage in progressive causes, grant millions of tax-payer dollars to PBS, spend tax surpluses on foreign-language school expansions, rehash failing funding formulas like BEP 2.0 to benefit pet projects, give per-gallon tax subsidies to oil companies, and introduce legislation that limits the free speech of bloggers.
Hopefully Woodson will win so we’ll have a Republican who will support expansion of Pre-K programs, engage in progressive causes, grant millions of tax-payer dollars to PBS, spend tax surpluses on foreign-language school expansions, rehash failing funding formulas like BEP 2.0 to benefit pet projects, give per-gallon tax subsidies to oil companies, and introduce legislation that limits the free speech of bloggers.
This is the personal blog of Wes Comer, a graphic designer, youth pastor, and husband of one, father of three. Here I'll share my thoughts and opinions, weighed against Truth that will hopefully help shape your world view. Most articles on this site are related to national politics, Tennessee state politics, and religion. More
Nikon and Canon have both recently released or announced new digital S.L.R. models - Canon the 15-megapixel 50D and Nikon the 12.3-megapixel D90. I recently sold my 6.3-megapixel Digital Rebel and am currently digital camera-less - and likely to stay that for awhile unless Canon or Nikon decide to... [Link]
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen apparently has seen the polls showing Barack Obama hurtling toward a crushing defeat in Tennessee in November, trailing John McCain by 24 points in the Volunteer State, and he's decided that while he has to be a good soldier and back Obama, it makes political sense for... [Link]
Andrew Sullivan on Bill Clinton: I don’t buy his evisceration of everything the Republican party has done in the last quarter century. I think the GOP did a great deal to rescue this country in the 1980s and early 1990s. In fact, I think Clinton would have failed as a president without the foil of the Gingrich GOP. But since ... [Link]
On a night even Bill Clinton is singing the praises of Barack Obama, Governor Phil Bredesen, once again, offers his unsolicited constructive criticism of the Democratic nominee: “What he’s got to do is get more specific — not so much in terms of putting out white papers — but really explaining to some of these undecided voters why is your ... [Link]
Barack Obama’s camapign looks at exploiting the advantages of states with early voting: To a campaign and its field organizers, early voting is a boon to aggressive efforts. Every voter a campaign has identified as a certain or likely supporter who goes and votes early is one fewer voter it has to target on election day. Campaigns can see the ... [Link]
A masterful political move. To break someone’s leg, then set the cast, and then be honored and applauded for having done so is quite a feat. After a speech last night in which she made a case more against the current and future Republican regime than for Barack Obama, after releasing her delegates but not telling them how to vote, ... [Link]
Ken Whitehouse reports from the floor of the Democratic Convention: The convention floor and the Pepsi Center sat in a moment of shock when the Illinois delegation - Obama’s home state passed on its roll call vote to put Obama over the top in delegate count to clinch the nomination. Instead, the roll call vote was deferred by Illinois and ... [Link]
Phil Bredesen talks to kids from Franklin’s Battle ground Academy from Denver: Via the Internet, students at the Franklin school watched a fellow classmate ask questions they had sent to the governor live Wednesday morning. Seventh grader Joel Parker got to go to the convention because his mom is one of Tennessee’s super-delegates. [Link]
Vibinc: I’m listening to the roll call on CSPAN online. We’re up to Montana at this point. So far, the only fireworks have been the surprise unanimous allottment of delegates from Arkansas to Barack Obama. Sean Braisted: Uh-oh, the PUMAs are going to freak, Alabama just voted 48-5 Obama to Hillary. [Link]
The BlogHer conference, an event for women bloggers, is coming to Nashville in October, just three years and five months after I and the Media Bloggers Association organized the BlogNashville conference that attracted some 300 bloggers and new-media types from all over America. The blogging scene... [Link]
An interesting panel discussion featuring some Davidson County political luminaries will be part of Humanities Symposium brought to by Belmont University’s English Department: Local politicians and activists Larry Woods, Bob Tuke (candidate for U.S. Senate), Representative Beth Harwell, Eric Stansell (2008 candidate for State House District 52) and WRVU talk show host Freddie O’Connell discuss how we debate, dissent, and ... [Link]
Sam Davidson encourages you to get involved in politics on the local level: While our collective national attention will be focused on conventions, debates and an election between now and November, we can’t forget Tip O’Neill’s reflection that “All politics is local.” So, although contacting your senators and president is important, take a moment today to contact a local elected ... [Link]
Hillary Clinton officially “releases” her delegates: “It is traditional that we have nominations, that we have a roll call,” Clinton said to thunderous applause from a thousand or so Clinton delegates in a ballroom at the Denver convention center. “That we have candidates who look for ways to work to make sure that we come out of here ready to ... [Link]
Drew Cline on Bill Clinton’s performance from the audience during his wife’s speech: Watch the video of Hillary Clinton’s convention speech last night, and you can see Bill Clinton mouthing the words, “I love you.” I didn’t know Bill talked to himself. [Link]
Jeff Cassman schools us on convention politics: Using this time to paint pretty pictures of the individual players is simply not enough-in politics you cannot just run a popularity contest you must differentiate yourself. [Link]
Or none at all: “Obama cherishes his life story as a unique saga, but the drama of a fatherless child’s rise to temporal power, driven by ambition, a hunger for control and an appetite for the approval of others, is a familiar one in American politics. Presidents, and presidential candidates, tend to come from one of two kinds of distinct ... [Link]
Bizgrrl talked with some Tennessee delegates during the lead up to Hillary Clinton’s historic speech last night: Some of the Tennessee delegates were gracious enough to give me a few minutes. I just happened to find a group from East Tennessee. Dan Lawson, from Maryville, was there as a delegate from the 8th district. He had also attended the 2000 ... [Link]
Textually reports on one of the many ways the Obama campaign expands its potential database: When 76,000 people pack Denver’s Invesco Field tomorrow to hear Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, they’ll be called on to get to work. Bloomberg reports. “The campaign is asking them to text-message friends and urge them to sign on as supporters of the Democratic presidential ... [Link]
State Senator Jim Kyle gets sealed off from one of the most talked about speeches of this convention despite being a delegate: As the excitement of last night’s events culminated in Senator Clinton’s speech, I found myself, along with many other delegates, sealed out of the convention floor. As the speeches get bigger, the security gets tighter, and none of ... [Link]
