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Dennis Kucinich has got moxie!!

Dennis Kucinich a Democratic Presidential candidate said something that many have thought, referred to indirectly, or joked about, but haven't laid out with the boldness of a Terry Tate "Office Linebacker" hit, about President Bush. "I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health. There's something wrong. He doesn't seem to understand his words have real impact." This is in direct reference to Bush's comments about World WarIII being imminent over Iran obtaining nukes and preventing them from having the knowledge to make them. Oh that's right, Iran doesn't have any scientists or intelligencia, they are just a bunch of men and women that farm and park cars for a living, whatever! Kucinich went on to say, "you cannot be a President of the United States who's wonton in his expression of violence. There's a lot of people who need care. He might be one of them. If there isn't something wrong with him, then there's something wrong with us. This, to me, is a very serious question." We are upside down in debt over this war in Iraq, when we should have been in Afghanistan, pounding the crap out of the Taliban/Al-Qaida. How do you go to war without an exit strategy and tell the American people you are affected every time a soldier dies?

Dick Cheney + Hunting = More Controversy. This Time it's the Conferderate Flag

When the napping Vice President goes hunting, controversy seems to get locked and loaded. Dick had himself another hunting trip on another private hunting club (when clubs are private that usually means...) where a confederate flag hung in plain view in a garage.

The club is an upscale gun club in upstate Union Vale, N.Y. Cheney's spokeswomen says he didn't know the flag was there. But a "Daily News" photographer snapped the shot, and he wasn't even in the club. When the photographer asked to get a comment from the club, he was threatened with arrest.

Not only was the VP hunting under the confederate flag, but he was once again hunting farm-bred pheasant that are shove out onto the plains hours before he shows up with his hunting gun. OOHHHHH.

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Cheney And Obama Cousins?

Well, there goes Obama's Presidential bid, right down the ole drain. Lynne Cheney, wife of Darth Vader (before he took the helmet off and got all weepy) said on MSNBC that the man of war and the man of peace are actually 8th cousins. WHAT!!!

---“This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.---

While researching her ancestory, Lynne Cheney uncovered---Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England, said Ginny Justice---

Obama's response? “Every family has a black sheep,”. Funny, but dude you're cooked. If this is true and it becomes headline news, it will feel like Cheney could get voted back into office again.

Okay, that's a leap I know, but wow, what a weird turn of events.

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The Sen, Larry Craig Story: I Didn't Tell My Wife And I Will Appeal...AGAIN

In the real world anybody that pleads guilty is guilty, and for someone who studies the laws, makes the laws and enforces the laws, such as a Senator, they should know the Law.

Any Politician worth his weight in kick backs knows there is no such thing as a cover up when it comes to scandals involving sex. Those always make it to the surface. Sex and racism always come back to haunt a Politician one way or another. The fact that this man pleaded guilty, 3 months after the charge speaks soundly to his knowledge of the law and it's possible repercussion. He had plenty of time to think and research his decision. He had plenty of time to seek private counsel with client-attorney privacy laws that would have protected him. This man is a Senator of the United States. Are we to believe he does not have a lawyer friend to whom he could have confided in for guidence? NO.

If what he now claims so adamantly, that he was afraid of journalist, that the accusation and pursuant arrest was under completely false pretense. That he is a victim of a misunderstanding, setup and railroading by Minneapolis police, if we are to believe these to be factual and true, why not state that claim the moment he got his first chance to call a lawyer?

Okay, he didn't seek counsel, that's stupid enough and raises suspicion of guilt alone. But in the real world, if a person goes through something they deem to be a stupid misunderstanding, putting them in a awkward position, they will normally come home, pull their spouse aside and say, "you won't believe what happened to me today." But we now find out that the Senator never told his wife or his children until the story was about to go prime time.

---"I felt like the floor was falling out from under me. ... And I felt like almost like I was going down a drain for a few moments," she told NBC's Matt Lauer.---

---Sen. Craig told Lauer it was a "tough call" not to tell anyone about the incident. "I didn't want to embarrass my wife, my kids, Idaho and my friends," Craig said. "And I wrestled with it a long while. ... I should have told my wife. I should have told my kids. And most importantly, I should have told counsel."---

For my money this seals the deal all by its self. 99% of the time, a spouses sexual indiscretion will remain a secret until it is about or has reached the light of day. Any episode of "Cops" or "To Catch A Predator" will prove that. The busted will almost always make mention of their wife never finding out, by pleading that they don't.

Then there is of course the blatantly obvious. No man picks up a piece of toilet tissue off the floor of a public bathroom stall. In fact, in most cases, what hits the floor, stays on the floor. And if it's something you need, it's one hell of a daunting but necessary task to pick it up. But toilet tissue? Nope, no way, there's more on the roll. Then there is the touching another mans foot while sitting on the public thrown. This is so incredibly hard to belive that it's not worth debate but, and I am almost positive this goes for Gay men as well, if it happens, there will be a small freak out from both parties involved.

I myself cannot imagine touching another mans foot while standing at the urinal but especially sitting on the toilet, and not flipping out a little. But if it happened I'm sure the person I touched would react, and negatively. Of course I would then apologies, and there would be some sort of awkawrd banter, but the both of us would want outta there fast. Not from homophobia, from YUCK!! Bowel movements are a very personal thing, doing them in a room with others trying to have their own personal movements is messed up enough, but to invade that personal space is completely out of the question, out of the norm and out of the realm of real world public restroom decorum. This is why all of his actions, and non actions point directly to what he plead guilty to. And his actions since, are making it worse.

Craig's plea for an overturn of his original plea was shot down. He is now stating that he will appeal again.

---"It is my right to do what I'm doing," said Craig, an Idaho Republican. "I've already provided for Idaho certainty that Idaho needed — I'm not running for re-election. I'm no longer in the way. I am pursuing my constitutional rights."---

This is of course making him the poster boy for the "closet", a place that Homosexuals are fighting to abolish, but still feel a necessary place to hide because of individuals like Craig, and their superior complex over all "unlike" themselves (also known as the "Falwell Syndrome" or "Coulter Conscience"). This is what makes this and others like it such compelling stories. Which really brings home the concept and universal truth of "judge not, lest you be judge." But the absurdity of this particular story is mind boggling, because he just might get away with it. Which is criminal because "law officials" are always great and heroic until a public official gets busted doing something they shouldn't. It's like jailing Border Patrol Agents for shooting (not killing) a known drug smuggler while he's trying to enter the country illegally, and attacks the officers. Or loving the soilder until the soilder says something you don't like because it goes against personal or affiliated political beliefs. It's all backwards, but if you have the power, and the agent of mind control (talk radio host) then you've got the upper hand.

Craig could have avoided this entire ordeal by citing an (amended) Constitutional provision that bars authorities from detaining Senators from a vote on the floor. Under scrutiny it would not have held up, but in that busy Minneapolis Airport, there's no way the cop would have known that, and with a bit a forcefulness from Craig, the Senator and his credentials would have pushed the officer into letting him go.

This man is an idiot, he should be thrown out of public office, and no other court should hear his appeal. He plead guilty once and has been found guilty twice. Case closed.

Quotes via AP

Update: (R) Larry Craig: I Am Not Gay

Yesterday embatteled Republican Senator Larry Craig had a press conference where he professed 3 times, "I am not gay". The Senator then went on to say that the Statesman is to blame. The Statesman is an Idaho publication that has been following this story for 6 months.

As reported earlier, the conservative Sentator who has a record of voting to deny rights to gays and women, has had speculation of homosexuality follow him throughout his career. Prior to this story breaking, he alledgedly had sex with a "known" republican operative in a DC train station. It should be noted that no one "knows" who this person is.

You may have seen the video of the Senator calling then embattled President Clinton, a bad boy, a very naughty bad boy, a very nasty naughty bad boy.

The Republican party has opened an investigation into the allegations, hoping to stave off critics that criticized the slow reaction to Represenative Foley and Speaker Hasstert.

Larry Criag has blamed everyone else in this scandal. Funny how the police are always right, always hero's and do a great service until a public figure gets busted, then the police are a bunch of liars.

In the middle of all the media blitz on this latest scandal, I wonder if the far right is finally beginning to understand that there is no such thing as Sainthood in a Politician, any Politician. And sometimes church leaders.

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Update: Update (R) Senator Larry Craig, Sex In Union Station?

New allegations have surfaced that the now embattled Senator from Idaho was involved in a sex act in Washington DC's Union Station. And If you've ever been in there, you know that place is nasty.

Okay first, if you've ever been in the position that you jus had to use a public restroom, there was just no way of getting out of it, the last thing you want to do is go sit your butt on one of those public seats. No matter how many cowboy hat sheets and toilet paper you put down, you want it out and fast. If you happen to be put in that position, because oh let's say you had the breakfast buffet at Ceaser's Palace right before you were about to hit the long road home, and a guy comes and sits in the stall next to you, I don't care how big your feet are your going to quicken your release.

If you're a guy with really big feet and you are put into that "position", your going to take your big feet and make sure they aren't sticking out into the stall were a guy is about to release body waste. But according to Craig, his touching the foot of the undercover officer was purely a mistake do to the size of his footwear. Uh huh.

The reaching under the stall was to get the peice of paper that he dropped. Apparently he lost it into the void of fallen objects because the officer never saw a peice of paper.

Now there are new allegations surfacing about another restroom game of big foot paper search. According to a 40 year-old man claims that he had oral sex with the senator in the DC Union station restroom in 2004.

In 1982, then representative Larry Craig was involved in a piage sex scandal which he denied.

This is the newest scandalous story to fill the talking head circuit and drive us all crazy in the coming days. But we here at MP will follow it only for one reason. For far too long these High and Mighty ultra Conservative Republicans have been getting away with vilifying Gay men and women. Waving the Bible in the air from the floor of the Senate and winning elections on the promise of making those that don't fit into their cookie cutter piety dish second, and if they could, third class citizens in a country that is supposed to promote the pursuit of happiness.

The fact that Larry Craig may be a Gay man is not the issue here. What is at issue is the system of lies sold to a fearful group hell bent on denying happiness to those unlike themselves. A group that then turns around and votes the lie dealer into office. And as we have seen through the years, that lie dealer turns out to be just that, a big footed liar searching for imaginary paper on the floor of a filthy public restroom.

Update: (R) Larry Craig Gay Bathroom Arrest

Earlier today we reported on longtime Idaho Senator Larry Craig's run in with the law in a Minneapolis Airport bathroom. Apparently this bathroom is a known Gay male pick up spot, so known that there was an undercover operation going on when the Senator was busted.

As reported, The Senator plead guity and paid a fine. He was outed by a Gay Publication a while back and has denied it. What makes this story so interesting is not the fact the man may possibly be gay, who cares. What matters here is another Republican preaching moral values and acting holier than thou (He was one of the Senators that lead the charge to impeach Clinton) has been caught with his hand in another mans cookie jar.

Funny how folks who continually judge others, others who are just human beings living by the law, but have different life styles or points of view, always end up in the news under a scandalous headline.

The Statesman staff of the Idaho Statesman.com, has been following the Senator for over 6 months. They have their hands on the pulse of this story and have posted a very indepth and excellent read on the matter.

---Idaho Sen. Larry Craig said his actions in Minnesota were misconstrued by police and that he should not have pleaded guilty to charges.
"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions," Craig said in a release. "I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct. I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."

Earlier today, the magazine Roll Call reported that Craig had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in Minnesota this month after being arrested by a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men's public restroom.

Craig denied the police account of what occurred and said he erred in pleading guilty.

"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions," he said in a statement late this afternoon. "I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct. "I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."

Craig was arrested soon after noon at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on June 11. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, had a 10-day jail sentence stayed, and was given one year of probation, Roll Call said.

The police were conducting a sting operation to investigate allegations of lewd conduct at the airport's main terminal.

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