Republican or Democrat, American or Foreign, the politicos are fine subject for speculation, rumination and a bit of derision
George Galloway-It's Serious Now
George Galloway is a British politician who, as revealed by this post on the man, likes to make a fool of himself.
Besides his silly antics, the man is a liar and a thief. The United States government has the goods on this fellow and his involvement with the lovable Saddam Hussein. Galloway was hip deep in Saddam and Kofi's oil-for-palaces scandal and George lied brazenly in front of an American congressional committee looking into the matter.
Thanks to Instapundit we find out that British investigators obtained many documents that are alleged to be proof of Galloway's complicity in keeping the Iraqi people under Saddam's oppression.
This guy is such a jerk. May he spend many fine years in jail.
George Galloway faces the prospect of a criminal investigation into his activities by the serious fraud office, which has collected evidence relating to the oil-for-food corruption scandal in Iraq.
A four-strong SFO team returned from Washington with what a source close to US investigators calls "thousands of documents" about the scandal. The team is expected to produce, within the next four weeks, a report for the SFO director, Robert Wardle, as to whether a full criminal investigation should be mounted into UK individuals and companies involved, including Mr Galloway.
Google and Porn
I watched Dateline on several occasions when child predators got caught. On camera and in living color.
In every instance, as one might imagine, the predators were sickening.
Yes they were lured by a decoy and a user posing as a child in various Internet chat rooms. But they thought it was real.
There is a law on the books to protect children against these predators, the 1998 Child Online Protection Act. That law, however, is under challenge by the ACLU. Tough job, defending child predators.
This administration is requesting that several of the major search engines provide a random sampling of one million searches over a one-week period.
It's not clear, at least to me, what this sampling would provide or how it would help defend the law. I'm guessing the sample would illustrate, by the volume of searches for child porn, how serious the problem is. But it's just a guess.
As for the random sampling, it's not as if anyone specific is targeted. Although it would probably be small matter to obtain email addresses from such a list.
Article comments
1 - Bing
I'd sooner cut off my right hand than use it to give Cindy Sheehan a dime.
That crazy bitch can go ask that world class douchebag George Soros for money if she wants to run for Senator.
2 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Someone actually tried to kill Amina-whathisface? Cool! An innocent man works on destroying the Middle East and a bullet finds its way into his chest - it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Too bad it didn't.
3 - zingzing
you aclu comment (anti-american?) is way off base. fighting child porn is a good thing, but this is not the way to do it. it's an invasion of privacy for everyone, not just child molesters. i don't really care about the privacy of actual child molesters, but i see no reason why i (or you) should be molested by the government because they want to touch some kiddy-parts.
if protecting individual liberty is anti-american, then fuck america. and fuck americans. call me anti-american. i really couldn't give two shits about what you call me, as long as you leave me alone. it's amazing that some people don't see the need for the aclu. they're like the police. everyone hates them until they need them. the day when you need them will, if you continue to let the government invade your privacy, probably be here quite soon. just don't go crying to mommy when they tell you to fuck off. (of course, they won't, but that's beside the point.)
4 - Maurice
Patricia,
you always get it right and are very entertaining. Keep up the good work.
5 - Justin Berry
Shhh!! dont tell anyone that we know the Dems took money from Abramoff. We want to see how loud they scream about the republicans. Then we can open that can of crow and feed it to them.
6 - Nancy
Justin, everybody knows (including other non-rightwingers) the Dems took money from Abramoff. They just didn't take as much, as greedily, as arrogantly, and as blatantly ... most likely because they aren't the party in power or they would have. When judging corruption, you do have to take into consideration that old saw about "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." So the party out of power can only be somewhat corrupt, altho they'll change that fast enough should the situation change.
7 - Justin Berry
How long as Abramoff been around? Werent hte dems in power at one time?
Is that why the dems are so mad? they didnt get a bigger piece of the pie? Seems to me that anyone caught should be removed from congress no matter what party, and lets get this done before the midterm elections so we can go ahead and replace them with more sell-outs.
8 - Nancy
ALL politicians are whores; you should know that by now. Party doesn't matter: they're interchangable. All of them are wealthy, all are vastly overprivileged, all are arrogant - and all need to spend the rest of their lives subject to Mao-style "re-education" in the fields, in my opinion.
9 - Justin Berry
Agreed. You have to admit the irony of this situation is funny. I can see all kinds of politicians walking around Washington looking in mirrors and constantly asking each other "do I have egg on my face?"
10 - Nancy
Oh, they are, they are. 99.999% of Official Washington is probably quaking in their beds each night waiting for that Call from the FBI to come have a little chat. They're all dirty, it's just a question of degree, and at the moment, it's the Republicans who've had the biggest & best chance recently to sink the deepest. That's how they came to power, after all: the Dems were in command, were dirty, and the Republicans came in back in 94 vowing to Change All That & run a clean government. Ha. Har har har. I wonder if they meant it at the time, or whether even then they were just rubbing their greasy little hands in anticipation of being able to pick their share of pockets. Excuse me, I seem to be cynical about political ethics of ANY kind.
11 - Bing
Maybe all politicians are whores but at least the GOP is worth sleeping with.
12 - zingzing
the GOP has got a disease it's not telling you about.