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notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3114
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 9:01 pm: | 
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You've won an all-expenses-paid (by taxpayers) trip to the slammer for, yes, ONE HUNDRED MONTHS!
Be sure to take advantage of the many fine activities that will be available to you while you're there, such as weightlifting, license plate production, and showering with men with nicknames like "Piledriver".
I'm sure all the new friends you'll make will be enchanted by your stories of the millions you took in bribes, the luxury posessions you lost, and the deep insights you've discovered regarding the social strata of this fine land.
Take care, Duke, you loach, you leech, you loser, we'll see ya on the other side. Maybe. |
Brokeback Straw
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6906
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 9:46 pm: |
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Notehead,
You sound really happy. A war hero is now a criminal. You must feel odd though. Afterall, it's a sad story but you on the other hand applaud the fact he has destroyed himself and his family.
That's the only damage inflicted here in the long run. I feel for his family but the punishment fits the crime. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3115
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 10:24 pm: |
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I'm celebrating the fact that he got caught and has been sentenced appropriately, and you know it. |
Brokeback Straw
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6908
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 11:11 pm: |
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I understand. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5287
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 9:04 am: |
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Cunningham deserves every bit of his sentence.
Notehead is consistent. He did handstands when Rosty was convicted, and he's going to be the first one on the board when William Jefferson, D-LA gets his. |
The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 958
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 9:17 am: |
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Cunningham got what he deserved, but no reason to get all giddy over it....
I always found it ironic that liberals like notey expect cons to automatically defend corrupted Republicans just because they are Republicans....
Is this what shrinks call projection?
Can we pull the switch on Mumia Abu Jamal now?
-SLK |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3116
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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That's funny... I always find it ironic when Republicans get all defensive when somebody celebrates the indictment or sentencing of a corrupt member of the GOP.
This is good news for everybody who respects democracy and the rule of law. Jumping on me for applauding Duke's sentencing just shows your own true colors. |
Brokeback Straw
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6910
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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Notehead,
When Clinton was impeached I was pretty darn blue. I felt horrible for Bill, and his family and his legacy. I felt awful because I expect and demand our President to hold the office with dignity.
Clinton's legacy altering impeachment was well deserved just as Duke's punishment is. I guess the difference here is that folks such as myself cheer success, not failure.
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The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 964
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:25 am: |
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notey-
And all you are doing by being all giddy over this is illustrating the lack of compassion, a sentiment you and the rest of the liberal establishment claim to uphold so much.....
remember "its easy to laugh it is easy to hate...."
-SLK |
llama
Citizen
Username: Llama
Post Number: 735
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Bury;
Keep fooling yourself about your moral values if it makes you happy. You like to put yourself on a bizzare pedestal, yet the reality is that you should ponder why you are the most disliked "folk" on MOL. It's not too late to swallow your hate and move on in life. |
The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 966
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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isn't it llama hunting season yet...  |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5845
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:39 am: |
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Actually Straw, notey is cheering success. The success of the judicial system in convicting a crook.
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llama
Citizen
Username: Llama
Post Number: 736
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:42 am: |
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SLK,
Watch out for Cheney! |
Brokeback Straw
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6911
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:47 am: |
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Duncan,
The Judicial system has indeed done its job. However, when a man destroys his once very proud life there is nothing to be happy about. This is not a happy story, it's a modern day tragedy. From war hero to convict..Not what I call a happy moment. |
llama
Citizen
Username: Llama
Post Number: 737
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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Like the Bush presidency. This is not a happy story, it's a modern day tragedy. Not what I call a happy moment for our country. |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5847
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 12:12 pm: |
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Straw, if you really believe that, then are a great many posts you must needs go back and edit. For you have often rejoiced at the failings of others.
And a modern tragedy?? Hyperbole, right? The guy was a crook, the fact that he is a veteran doesn't mitigate that at all. |
Brokeback Straw
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6913
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 2:30 pm: |
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Duncan,
I rejoice when Saddam gets captured or the market shows growth or the Taliban falls, etc. I'm obviously happy when Kerry and Edwards lose. I'm obviously happy when NYC continues electing a Republican Mayor. I'm thrilled when California sends Gov. Davis packing and elects a GOPer instead. Would I jump for joy if someone like Davis was indicted? No, I would be saddened.
Look there are people like Ted Kennedy who I hate and I do believe he belongs in jail for killing a woman. My dislike of the man has nothing to do with his political ideals. I hate Kennedy because he killed a woman and got away with it.
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SO Ref
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 1545
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 2:46 pm: |
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Do you also hate Laura Bush for killing her boyfriend in 1963 and getting away with it??? |
The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 971
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 3:50 pm: |
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SO Ref....wow, I never knew that...BUT...from what it appears, she took the responsibility unlike the great T-E-D.... |
SO Ref
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 1547
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 5:27 pm: |
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But, he's a Kennedy...he's not supposed to be responsible...
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Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 194
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 9:40 pm: |
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Straw:
' it's a modern day tragedy. From war hero to convict..Not what I call a happy moment.'
I believe that in the classic sense 'tragedy' is when greater forces beyond your control take you down. It's 'pathos' when you do it to yourself.
And, yes, not a happy moment... |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5852
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 11:18 pm: |
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Tragedy can occur either from external forces or from the internal, or tragic flaw. Pathos is actually the reaction one often has to tragedy in the form of pity for or sympathy with the 'tragic hero'. Neither word belongs in this debate frankly.
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Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 196
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 12:33 am: |
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Why not? |
Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5853
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 10:52 am: |
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cause to call the conviction of a man for bribery a tragedy puts it in the same category as the events of 9/11. Tell me, do you think that they are comparable? |
Brokeback Straw
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 6915
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 11:33 am: |
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From war hero to greedy criminal. Tragic downfall of an indivudual. The word is clearly appropriate. |
GOP Man
Citizen
Username: Headsup
Post Number: 288
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 12:01 pm: |
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yes. the poor guy's tragic flaw was a desire for a multimillion dollar lifestyle. haven't we all been there?
so the guy took a few bribes. it's not like he mugged someone.
I feel very sorry for Cunningham. one lapse in judgement and a war hero is in jail for 8 long years. |
SO Ref
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 1551
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 12:05 pm: |
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Due to a lapse in judgement during election time, we've all been sentenced to 8 long years. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4464
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 1:02 pm: |
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You all are using different meanings of "tragedy." Oedipus Rex is a classic tragedy, and not unlike the sad tale of "Duke," whose fatal flaw was greed. 9/11 isn't this kind of tragedy, and I never really liked the word "tragedy" for it anyway. Catastrophe, disaster, crime against humanity ... those fit better.
A true tragedy should involve someone brought down in part by their own inner demons, not by the random actions of others.
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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5860
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 7:28 pm: |
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tom...fatal flaw implies death. not prison, so in terms of using language appropriately we can amend that as well.
I grant you, disaster or catastrophe is a better descriptive for 9/11.
But to put this idiots greed on the level of tragedy is to diminish all the true tragedies on or off stage. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3117
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 9:18 pm: |
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So, Straw & SLK, let me get this straight: catching a bad guy is not something to be glad about. Instead, you think I should be focused on how sad it is that the guy abused one of the highest positions of power in the land because he was a greedy scuzball.
Okay, so by that logic I shouldn't be glad when our armed forces take out a group of terrorists. Rather, I should be primarily concerned with what a shame it is that those particular murderers chose a path of violence.
Is that it? |
Southerner
Citizen
Username: Southerner
Post Number: 786
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 10:30 pm: |
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Cunningham is a dope because he got caught. If you are going to do something do it right. The guy deserves all the punishment he gets because he didn't do his homework and prepare properly. And to think he had many folks believing he was a good politician. The good ones don't get caught (or at least successfully prosectued). |
The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 981
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 10:53 pm: |
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notey-
Being glad is different from being downright giddy....
-slk |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4467
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 11:07 pm: |
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Southerner, does that go for murderers and rapists, too; or just Republican politicians who take bribes? |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3119
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 11:21 pm: |
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Thanks for the insight, SLK. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10882
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 - 4:36 am: |
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I was channel surfing yesterday and caught a show on the History Channel about Cunningham and the day he and his Radar Incept Officer downed three North Vietnam MIGS before being shot down by a surface to air missle, barely making it to the coast where they were quickly picked up by US helicopters. It is a shame that his life ended up the way it did. Still, it was his choice and you can only wonder why he did what he did. Did he think he was entitled because of his service in Viet Nam? |
GOP Man
Citizen
Username: Headsup
Post Number: 294
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 - 9:35 am: |
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being a war hero does indeed entitle you to lenience in a criminal sentencing. it doesn't entitle you to be taken seriously as a senatorial or presidential candidate, however. that's where I draw the line. |
ae35unit
Citizen
Username: Ae35unit
Post Number: 12
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 - 3:57 pm: |
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All politics is local, until it isn't anymore. MZM, Katherine Harris, The Dukester, now Jebb.
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBEQVNGDKE.html
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notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3121
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 10:23 am: |
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Maybe Straw can give us the skinny on what's going on in the office of his good buddy Jeb. I've always felt that Kate Harris is somewhat less trustworthy than your typical carnival huckster.
Hey, maybe Jeb will end up in the slammer with a cell near Duke Cunningham? (Um... not while his bro is The Man.) |
ae35unit
Citizen
Username: Ae35unit
Post Number: 13
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 12:00 pm: |
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I'm sure Straw's thrilled! I mean deeply saddened.
Here's more for Straw to get emotional over….
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/03/05/2006030 5-A1-00.html
Personally, I think we as a nation, can do better.
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