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10s or 1000s at a time in one group.

they can be informative - this is a general group after all - even it is 
listed as Pgh  - actions, initiatives and other goings on at the natl 
level affect Pgh.

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> KC
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> 
>    The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 161)
>    June 28, 2004
>    "F--- Yourself" Edition
>    So, if you think some of the comments on this website are
>    inappropriate or indecent, well... at least you can take comfort from
>    the fact that we don't hold any high office in the government of the
>    United States, unlike a certain person (1) who was caught changing the
>    tone in Washington last week. But Dick Cheney wasn't the only idiot
>    last week. There were also People Who Can't Handle The Truth (2) who
>    are still pooping their collective pants over Michael Moore's new
>    movie. And speaking of pants - or the lack thereof - check out former
>    Republican Senate Candidate Jack Ryan (3) and conservative talk-show
>    host Jon Matthews (10). Enjoy!
> 
>    1 Dick Cheney F-bomb
>    There's an exciting new level of political discourse in town, and it's
>    all thanks to Vice President Dick Cheney! For years, partisan
>    activists such as ourselves have remained on the fringes of legitimate
>    political debate partly due to our use of coarse and colorful
>    language. But now it appears that Dick Cheney has blown down the
>    barriers by dropping an F-bomb on the floor of the Senate. At a photo
>    session last week Crashcart got into a heated debate with Sen. Patrick
>    Leahy (D-VT) over the Democrats' investigations into Halliburton war
>    profiteering. When Leahy retorted that Cheney was standing by
>    Republicans who accused Democrats of being anti-Catholic, Cheney
>    replied, "Fuck yourself." Yay! Fuck yourself! Fuck yourself! Go fuck
>    yourself! Thank you, Dick Cheney, for lowering the bar for all of us
>    partisan outsiders. Because if it's okay for the vice president to
>    tell a senator to fuck himself on the floor of the Senate, it should
>    be perfectly okay for a bunch of political hacks on a website to say
>    it. Fuck yourself! (In an added comic twist, I should mention that the
>    incident occurred on the same day the Senate passed the so-called
>    "Defense of Decency" act. Ha ha.)
> 
>    2 People Who Can't Handle The Truth excessive spin excessive spin
>    covering your ass hypocrisy
>    Citizens United made the list last week for their appalling
>    anti-Clinton ad which blamed the former president for terrorism. This
>    time, along with Move America Forward (who also made the list last
>    week), they're launching a campaign to get Michael Moore's Fahrenheit
>    9/11 banned from cinemas. Not only that but Citizens United has
>    complained to the FEC in an attempt to get the movie's advertising
>    blocked under campaign finance laws. My, my. They're making an awful
>    lot of fuss over something which they claim is nothing but lies. I
>    mean, if it's such a blatant crock of shit, why don't they want people
>    to go see it? Do they think that people aren't smart enough to make up
>    their own minds, so Citizens United have to do it for them? Sounds to
>    me like exactly the kind of intellectual elitism that Rush Limbaugh
>    bemoans on a daily basis. And clearly the Bush administration has
>    learned from the Richard Clarke incident and was trying to give
>    Fahrenheit 9/11 as little publicity as possible last week - but one or
>    two poisonous comments still oozed from various White House
>    mouthpieces. Take Communications Director Dan Bartlett for example,
>    who said, "I can speak for myself and I can speak for the President,
>    and I can assure you that neither of us have seen ['Fahrenheit']...
>    This is a film that doesn't require us to actually view it to know
>    it's filled with factual inaccuracies." Oh really? What a shame they
>    didn't have the same remarkable foresight when it came to Ahmed
>    Chalabi's information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
> 
>    3 Jack Ryan and Friends sex
>    Poor Jack Ryan. The Republican running for Senate in Illinois has
>    boldly gone where several other politicians have unfortunately gone
>    before - into the dumpster of history after a sordid sex scandal. His
>    wife, ex-Star Trek actress Jeri Ryan, claimed in divorce papers that
>    Jack had taken her to at least three sex clubs, one "a bizarre club
>    with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
>    Sounds like Ken Starr's basement. According to Ryan, her husband
>    "wanted me to have sex with him there, with another couple watching. I
>    refused. [He] asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him, and he
>    specifically asked other people to watch." Jack, for his part, first
>    denied the charges, then came up with a variety of excuses which
>    included blaming the vast left-wing conspiracy, hiding behind his
>    "special needs" son, and - this is my favorite - saying, "I think my
>    character has been proven by this. There's no breaking of any laws.
>    There's no breaking of any marriage laws. There's no breaking of the
>    Ten Commandments anywhere." I guess God forgot to add the one about
>    "Thou Shalt Not Take Thy Wife To Sex Clubs Against Her Will And Then
>    Lie About It When She Brings It Up During Thy Divorce." But whatever -
>    if Jack Ryan wants to risk wining and dining his good lady wife in a
>    BDSM parlor, that's his business. What's surprising, however, is the
>    Clinton-bashing conservatives from Dennis Hastert to Bill O'Reilly who
>    came forward to defend Mr. Ryan's similar sidestepping of the truth.
>    I'm sorry, did I say surprising? I meant "entirely predictable."
> 
>    4 Team Bush hypocrisy hypocrisy excessive spin
>    When MoveOn.org solicited entries for an anti-Bush ad competition and
>    some random guy submitted an ad which compared Bush to Hitler, the
>    right-wing had an absolute fit. Ed Gillespie called it "the worst and
>    most vile form of political hate speech." Never mind that the ad was
>    created by a private citizen, MoveOn had no intention of using it, and
>    deleted it from their website. But now it seems that Team Bush are -
>    in an extremely sneaky fashion - doing the exact same thing they
>    lambasted MoveOn for doing. The official Bush/Cheney 2004 website put
>    up a web ad last week that used part of the never-screened MoveOn ad
>    in an effort to compare Democrats to Hitler. The ad begins with the
>    teaser, "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" and shows, in
>    sequence, Al Gore, Adolf Hitler, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Dick
>    Gephardt, Adolf Hitler (again), Al Gore (again), and finally, John
>    Kerry. (I guess we can deduce from this that Al Gore is as bad as
>    Hitler, whereas the others are only half as bad.) Presumably Team
>    Bush's excuse is that they are trying to show how mean and nasty
>    MoveOn is. And in that context it's perfectly okay to run an official
>    ad on their official campaign website labeling Hitler as one of the
>    "Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party." Gee, whatever happened to
>    "the worst and most vile form of political hate speech?"
> 
>    5 John Rowland dumb
>    Connecticut governor John Rowland made the Top Ten list six months ago
>    (see Idiots 139) after he came under investigation by federal
>    prosecutors in a freebies-for-favors scandal. Among other things,
>    Rowland had improvements made to his vacation cottage which were paid
>    for by "politically appointed state employees, friends and a state
>    contractor," and subsequently lied about it. The good news is that
>    last week Rowland saw the writing on the wall and resigned before he
>    could be impeached. As well as the improvements to his cottage, the
>    Associated Press reported that "Rowland received cigars, champagne, a
>    vintage Ford Mustang convertible, a canoe and free or discounted
>    vacations from employees and friends - including some with state
>    contracts." And so the once-rising star of the Republican party has
>    sadly come crashing down to earth. After announcing his resignation,
>    Rowland said, "I hope there have been times when I made you all
>    proud." Well, yeah - there was that time you resigned, you corrupt
>    bastard.
> 
>    6 Senate Republicans election stealing partisanship
>    It seems that the Senate Republicans are getting a little worried that
>    their boy in the White House might go down hard this November, so
>    they're doing what they can to prop him up. Last week John Kerry was
>    forced to interrupt his campaign and return to Washington in order to
>    cast an important vote on funding health care benefits for veterans.
>    But guess what? As soon as he got there, Republican leaders postponed
>    the vote. Way to play politics with veterans' health care benefits,
>    guys! But this isn't the first time Republicans have played politics
>    with Senate business in an attempt to hobble John Kerry - the Bush
>    Administration bashed the Democratic nominee recently for failing to
>    return to Washington to vote on a proposal to extend unemployment
>    benefits to jobless Americans. The bill missed passage by one vote,
>    which sounds bad - until you learn that according to CNN, "one of the
>    11 GOP senators who voted for the measure would have switched sides to
>    defeat it if [Kerry] had been there to vote for it." Well, you know
>    what that old conservative maxim says: If you can't beat 'em... cheat
>    'em.
> 
>    7 Zell Miller partisanship
>    Not so long ago, Zell Miller proclaimed, "I'm afraid that my old
>    Democratic 'ties that bind' have become unraveled." (That was around
>    the same time he called John Kerry an "out-of-touch ultraliberal from
>    Taxachusetts" by the way.) In fact, it seems that it's Zell-Out's mind
>    that's become unraveled - for some reason he seems to think he can
>    still call himself a Democrat while not only endorsing George W. Bush
>    for president but now also giving a speech at the Republican National
>    Convention. As Bobby Kahn, chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party,
>    put it, "Maybe I'll switch to the Republican Party so I can speak at
>    the Democratic Convention and bash Bush. It makes about as much
>    sense." So, to clarify: thus far Zell Miller has endorsed George W.
>    Bush (Idiots 133), written a book slamming Democrats (Idiots 136),
>    started an organization called "Democrats for Bush" dedicated to
>    bashing John Kerry (Idiots 149), wanted to stop the 9/11 investigation
>    because it would "energize our enemies and demoralize our troops"
>    (Idiots 150), and has now announced that he will be speaking at the
>    Republican National Convention. Zell, in the words of our illustrious
>    vice president, fuck yourself.
> 
>    8 The Supreme Court partisanship hypocrisy hypocrisy hypocrisy
>    The Supreme Court bought Dick Cheney some time in a 7-2 ruling last
>    week which prevented the Bush administration from having to release
>    details of Cheney's secret energy task force meetings until after the
>    November election. (Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club are suing the
>    administration for details of the meetings which allegedly involved
>    executives from oil and gas companies and subsequently shaped policies
>    designed to help those companies.) But the Supreme Court's decision is
>    not just suspiciously partisan because of Antonin Scalia's
>    duck-hunting trips with Dick Cheney (see Idiots passim). You see, back
>    in 1993 the courts ruled that Hillary Clinton had to reveal the
>    participants of her health care task force meetings because
>    non-government employees were involved, and therefore, according to
>    the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote, certain
>    disclosures were required by law. Cheney's case deals with the exact
>    same law, but with last week's ruling the Supreme Court essentially
>    said that there is a different set of rules for the Bush
>    administration. As the Washington Post's editors wrote last week, "The
>    Clinton administration was subjected in a range of cases to intrusive
>    discovery that, it frequently complained, burdened executive
>    confidences. The Supreme Court okayed personal sexual harassment
>    litigation against the president with blithe disregard for its
>    potential impact on the presidency. Now, by contrast, the high court
>    bends over backward to emphasize, even at the risk of tension with its
>    own precedents, the president's special needs in fighting off
>    lawsuits." But let's face it, we shouldn't expect anything less from
>    the court that installed Monkey Boy in the first place.
> 
>    9 Arnold Schwarzenegger cyborg
>    Governor Groping Austrian Beefcake is at long last starting to live up
>    to his "Terminator" nickname, announcing last week that he wanted to
>    skim a measly $14 million off California's $15 billion budget
>    shortfall by overturning a law known as the Hayden Act which forces
>    animal shelters to hold stray cats and dogs up to six days before
>    killing them. The current law makes adoption of stray animals a
>    priority over euthanasia, but I guess Arnie doesn't much care for
>    pets. According to the Los Angeles Times, as well as proposing to
>    overturn the Hayden Act Schwarzenegger would also "eliminate a
>    requirement that people convicted of animal cruelty be prohibited from
>    owning a pet for three years and be forced to pay for medical care for
>    the animals they have mistreated." Great. Oh, and "Shelters no longer
>    would be required to search for owners who have embedded microchips in
>    their pets that store addresses and phone numbers." So if you lose
>    your pet in California, don't bother going to the shelter to look for
>    it. Arnie's probably already used it for target practice.
> 
>    10 Jon Matthews just plain evil
>    And finally, a Republican family values update. We first took an
>    interest in the Jon Matthews story back in Idiots 133 after the
>    conservative talk-show host's radio program was pulled from KSEV in
>    Texas when he was under investigation for indecency with a child.
>    Seven months later, the results are in - Matthews pleaded guilty to
>    the charges last week, and, among other things, will have to register
>    as a sex offender when he is sentenced in about six weeks time. Last
>    November Republican congressman John Culbertson said of the charges,
>    "I just can't even imagine I refuse to believe it It must be a
>    mistake..." Better believe it, pal. Your buddy likes to expose himself
>    to 11-year-olds. See you next week...
> 
>    Linked cites verifying the aforementioned idiots can be found at:
>           http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/index.html
>    ______________________________________________________________________
> 
>                "If you think Dick Cheney  is cursing today,
>                 wait until you hear what he says on Nov. 2."
>                                                    --John Kerry
>    ______________________________________________________________________
> From: "In Your Dreams" <shade@blackhole.net>
> Newsgroups: pgh.general,stl.general,chi.general
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:40 PM
> Subject: Top Ten Conservative Idiots "F--- Yourself" Edition
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>   The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 161)
>>   June 28, 2004
>>   "F--- Yourself" Edition
>>   So, if you think some of the comments on this website are
>>   inappropriate or indecent, well... at least you can take comfort from
>>   the fact that we don't hold any high office in the government of the
>>   United States, unlike a certain person (1) who was caught changing the
>>   tone in Washington last week. But Dick Cheney wasn't the only idiot
>>   last week. There were also People Who Can't Handle The Truth (2) who
>>   are still pooping their collective pants over Michael Moore's new
>>   movie. And speaking of pants - or the lack thereof - check out former
>>   Republican Senate Candidate Jack Ryan (3) and conservative talk-show
>>   host Jon Matthews (10). Enjoy!
>>
>>   1 Dick Cheney F-bomb
>>   There's an exciting new level of political discourse in town, and it's
>>   all thanks to Vice President Dick Cheney! For years, partisan
>>   activists such as ourselves have remained on the fringes of legitimate
>>   political debate partly due to our use of coarse and colorful
>>   language. But now it appears that Dick Cheney has blown down the
>>   barriers by dropping an F-bomb on the floor of the Senate. At a photo
>>   session last week Crashcart got into a heated debate with Sen. Patrick
>>   Leahy (D-VT) over the Democrats' investigations into Halliburton war
>>   profiteering. When Leahy retorted that Cheney was standing by
>>   Republicans who accused Democrats of being anti-Catholic, Cheney
>>   replied, "Fuck yourself." Yay! Fuck yourself! Fuck yourself! Go fuck
>>   yourself! Thank you, Dick Cheney, for lowering the bar for all of us
>>   partisan outsiders. Because if it's okay for the vice president to
>>   tell a senator to fuck himself on the floor of the Senate, it should
>>   be perfectly okay for a bunch of political hacks on a website to say
>>   it. Fuck yourself! (In an added comic twist, I should mention that the
>>   incident occurred on the same day the Senate passed the so-called
>>   "Defense of Decency" act. Ha ha.)
>>
>>   2 People Who Can't Handle The Truth excessive spin excessive spin
>>   covering your ass hypocrisy
>>   Citizens United made the list last week for their appalling
>>   anti-Clinton ad which blamed the former president for terrorism. This
>>   time, along with Move America Forward (who also made the list last
>>   week), they're launching a campaign to get Michael Moore's Fahrenheit
>>   9/11 banned from cinemas. Not only that but Citizens United has
>>   complained to the FEC in an attempt to get the movie's advertising
>>   blocked under campaign finance laws. My, my. They're making an awful
>>   lot of fuss over something which they claim is nothing but lies. I
>>   mean, if it's such a blatant crock of shit, why don't they want people
>>   to go see it? Do they think that people aren't smart enough to make up
>>   their own minds, so Citizens United have to do it for them? Sounds to
>>   me like exactly the kind of intellectual elitism that Rush Limbaugh
>>   bemoans on a daily basis. And clearly the Bush administration has
>>   learned from the Richard Clarke incident and was trying to give
>>   Fahrenheit 9/11 as little publicity as possible last week - but one or
>>   two poisonous comments still oozed from various White House
>>   mouthpieces. Take Communications Director Dan Bartlett for example,
>>   who said, "I can speak for myself and I can speak for the President,
>>   and I can assure you that neither of us have seen ['Fahrenheit']...
>>   This is a film that doesn't require us to actually view it to know
>>   it's filled with factual inaccuracies." Oh really? What a shame they
>>   didn't have the same remarkable foresight when it came to Ahmed
>>   Chalabi's information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
>>
>>   3 Jack Ryan and Friends sex
>>   Poor Jack Ryan. The Republican running for Senate in Illinois has
>>   boldly gone where several other politicians have unfortunately gone
>>   before - into the dumpster of history after a sordid sex scandal. His
>>   wife, ex-Star Trek actress Jeri Ryan, claimed in divorce papers that
>>   Jack had taken her to at least three sex clubs, one "a bizarre club
>>   with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
>>   Sounds like Ken Starr's basement. According to Ryan, her husband
>>   "wanted me to have sex with him there, with another couple watching. I
>>   refused. [He] asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him, and he
>>   specifically asked other people to watch." Jack, for his part, first
>>   denied the charges, then came up with a variety of excuses which
>>   included blaming the vast left-wing conspiracy, hiding behind his
>>   "special needs" son, and - this is my favorite - saying, "I think my
>>   character has been proven by this. There's no breaking of any laws.
>>   There's no breaking of any marriage laws. There's no breaking of the
>>   Ten Commandments anywhere." I guess God forgot to add the one about
>>   "Thou Shalt Not Take Thy Wife To Sex Clubs Against Her Will And Then
>>   Lie About It When She Brings It Up During Thy Divorce." But whatever -
>>   if Jack Ryan wants to risk wining and dining his good lady wife in a
>>   BDSM parlor, that's his business. What's surprising, however, is the
>>   Clinton-bashing conservatives from Dennis Hastert to Bill O'Reilly who
>>   came forward to defend Mr. Ryan's similar sidestepping of the truth.
>>   I'm sorry, did I say surprising? I meant "entirely predictable."
>>
>>   4 Team Bush hypocrisy hypocrisy excessive spin
>>   When MoveOn.org solicited entries for an anti-Bush ad competition and
>>   some random guy submitted an ad which compared Bush to Hitler, the
>>   right-wing had an absolute fit. Ed Gillespie called it "the worst and
>>   most vile form of political hate speech." Never mind that the ad was
>>   created by a private citizen, MoveOn had no intention of using it, and
>>   deleted it from their website. But now it seems that Team Bush are -
>>   in an extremely sneaky fashion - doing the exact same thing they
>>   lambasted MoveOn for doing. The official Bush/Cheney 2004 website put
>>   up a web ad last week that used part of the never-screened MoveOn ad
>>   in an effort to compare Democrats to Hitler. The ad begins with the
>>   teaser, "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" and shows, in
>>   sequence, Al Gore, Adolf Hitler, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Dick
>>   Gephardt, Adolf Hitler (again), Al Gore (again), and finally, John
>>   Kerry. (I guess we can deduce from this that Al Gore is as bad as
>>   Hitler, whereas the others are only half as bad.) Presumably Team
>>   Bush's excuse is that they are trying to show how mean and nasty
>>   MoveOn is. And in that context it's perfectly okay to run an official
>>   ad on their official campaign website labeling Hitler as one of the
>>   "Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party." Gee, whatever happened to
>>   "the worst and most vile form of political hate speech?"
>>
>>   5 John Rowland dumb
>>   Connecticut governor John Rowland made the Top Ten list six months ago
>>   (see Idiots 139) after he came under investigation by federal
>>   prosecutors in a freebies-for-favors scandal. Among other things,
>>   Rowland had improvements made to his vacation cottage which were paid
>>   for by "politically appointed state employees, friends and a state
>>   contractor," and subsequently lied about it. The good news is that
>>   last week Rowland saw the writing on the wall and resigned before he
>>   could be impeached. As well as the improvements to his cottage, the
>>   Associated Press reported that "Rowland received cigars, champagne, a
>>   vintage Ford Mustang convertible, a canoe and free or discounted
>>   vacations from employees and friends - including some with state
>>   contracts." And so the once-rising star of the Republican party has
>>   sadly come crashing down to earth. After announcing his resignation,
>>   Rowland said, "I hope there have been times when I made you all
>>   proud." Well, yeah - there was that time you resigned, you corrupt
>>   bastard.
>>
>>   6 Senate Republicans election stealing partisanship
>>   It seems that the Senate Republicans are getting a little worried that
>>   their boy in the White House might go down hard this November, so
>>   they're doing what they can to prop him up. Last week John Kerry was
>>   forced to interrupt his campaign and return to Washington in order to
>>   cast an important vote on funding health care benefits for veterans.
>>   But guess what? As soon as he got there, Republican leaders postponed
>>   the vote. Way to play politics with veterans' health care benefits,
>>   guys! But this isn't the first time Republicans have played politics
>>   with Senate business in an attempt to hobble John Kerry - the Bush
>>   Administration bashed the Democratic nominee recently for failing to
>>   return to Washington to vote on a proposal to extend unemployment
>>   benefits to jobless Americans. The bill missed passage by one vote,
>>   which sounds bad - until you learn that according to CNN, "one of the
>>   11 GOP senators who voted for the measure would have switched sides to
>>   defeat it if [Kerry] had been there to vote for it." Well, you know
>>   what that old conservative maxim says: If you can't beat 'em... cheat
>>   'em.
>>
>>   7 Zell Miller partisanship
>>   Not so long ago, Zell Miller proclaimed, "I'm afraid that my old
>>   Democratic 'ties that bind' have become unraveled." (That was around
>>   the same time he called John Kerry an "out-of-touch ultraliberal from
>>   Taxachusetts" by the way.) In fact, it seems that it's Zell-Out's mind
>>   that's become unraveled - for some reason he seems to think he can
>>   still call himself a Democrat while not only endorsing George W. Bush
>>   for president but now also giving a speech at the Republican National
>>   Convention. As Bobby Kahn, chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party,
>>   put it, "Maybe I'll switch to the Republican Party so I can speak at
>>   the Democratic Convention and bash Bush. It makes about as much
>>   sense." So, to clarify: thus far Zell Miller has endorsed George W.
>>   Bush (Idiots 133), written a book slamming Democrats (Idiots 136),
>>   started an organization called "Democrats for Bush" dedicated to
>>   bashing John Kerry (Idiots 149), wanted to stop the 9/11 investigation
>>   because it would "energize our enemies and demoralize our troops"
>>   (Idiots 150), and has now announced that he will be speaking at the
>>   Republican National Convention. Zell, in the words of our illustrious
>>   vice president, fuck yourself.
>>
>>   8 The Supreme Court partisanship hypocrisy hypocrisy hypocrisy
>>   The Supreme Court bought Dick Cheney some time in a 7-2 ruling last
>>   week which prevented the Bush administration from having to release
>>   details of Cheney's secret energy task force meetings until after the
>>   November election. (Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club are suing the
>>   administration for details of the meetings which allegedly involved
>>   executives from oil and gas companies and subsequently shaped policies
>>   designed to help those companies.) But the Supreme Court's decision is
>>   not just suspiciously partisan because of Antonin Scalia's
>>   duck-hunting trips with Dick Cheney (see Idiots passim). You see, back
>>   in 1993 the courts ruled that Hillary Clinton had to reveal the
>>   participants of her health care task force meetings because
>>   non-government employees were involved, and therefore, according to
>>   the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote, certain
>>   disclosures were required by law. Cheney's case deals with the exact
>>   same law, but with last week's ruling the Supreme Court essentially
>>   said that there is a different set of rules for the Bush
>>   administration. As the Washington Post's editors wrote last week, "The
>>   Clinton administration was subjected in a range of cases to intrusive
>>   discovery that, it frequently complained, burdened executive
>>   confidences. The Supreme Court okayed personal sexual harassment
>>   litigation against the president with blithe disregard for its
>>   potential impact on the presidency. Now, by contrast, the high court
>>   bends over backward to emphasize, even at the risk of tension with its
>>   own precedents, the president's special needs in fighting off
>>   lawsuits." But let's face it, we shouldn't expect anything less from
>>   the court that installed Monkey Boy in the first place.
>>
>>   9 Arnold Schwarzenegger cyborg
>>   Governor Groping Austrian Beefcake is at long last starting to live up
>>   to his "Terminator" nickname, announcing last week that he wanted to
>>   skim a measly $14 million off California's $15 billion budget
>>   shortfall by overturning a law known as the Hayden Act which forces
>>   animal shelters to hold stray cats and dogs up to six days before
>>   killing them. The current law makes adoption of stray animals a
>>   priority over euthanasia, but I guess Arnie doesn't much care for
>>   pets. According to the Los Angeles Times, as well as proposing to
>>   overturn the Hayden Act Schwarzenegger would also "eliminate a
>>   requirement that people convicted of animal cruelty be prohibited from
>>   owning a pet for three years and be forced to pay for medical care for
>>   the animals they have mistreated." Great. Oh, and "Shelters no longer
>>   would be required to search for owners who have embedded microchips in
>>   their pets that store addresses and phone numbers." So if you lose
>>   your pet in California, don't bother going to the shelter to look for
>>   it. Arnie's probably already used it for target practice.
>>
>>   10 Jon Matthews just plain evil
>>   And finally, a Republican family values update. We first took an
>>   interest in the Jon Matthews story back in Idiots 133 after the
>>   conservative talk-show host's radio program was pulled from KSEV in
>>   Texas when he was under investigation for indecency with a child.
>>   Seven months later, the results are in - Matthews pleaded guilty to
>>   the charges last week, and, among other things, will have to register
>>   as a sex offender when he is sentenced in about six weeks time. Last
>>   November Republican congressman John Culbertson said of the charges,
>>   "I just can't even imagine I refuse to believe it It must be a
>>   mistake..." Better believe it, pal. Your buddy likes to expose himself
>>   to 11-year-olds. See you next week...
>>
>>   Linked cites verifying the aforementioned idiots can be found at:
>>          http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/index.html
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>>               "If you think Dick Cheney  is cursing today,
>>                wait until you hear what he says on Nov. 2."
>>                                                   --John Kerry
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