Cheating governor drama continues

Just when you thought the fake apologies and horseshit was over…

OK, I know that nobody would think that.

This is America, Governor Mark Sanford is a public figure, and I don’t know why his family is off limits when the Republicans were having a field day with Clinton getting a blow job back in ‘98. (Or when Mark Sanford, as a congressman, voted to impeach Clinton for it)

Only Mark Sanford is worse, this wasn’t just a momentary lapse in judgment,  it was an ongoing affair that his wife knew about for several years and had to not talk about in public for fear of ruining her husbands reelection campaigns and cashing in the futures of their four small children. (The youngest of which is now 10.)

So if anything I feel sorry for them, because this Mark Sanford piece of shit will be burned, and rightfully so,  but his children are now humiliated and will have to bear the brunt of this.

Meanwhile in the South Carlina capital, lawmakers are investigating whether Sanford followed proper procedure when he left the state to go have that Argentinian home wrecker nuke his corn dog.

Somehow I have my doubts that he wrote “Dear Mr. Speaker, I will be incapacitated and unable to fulfill my gubernatorial duties for the next 7 days while I go chase a piece of Latina ass. P.S. Please feed my goldfish”

Clinton *DID NOT* disappear for 7 days and abandon the country while he went to chase tail. Mark Sanford did abandon his state.

You know, for the party of morality and leadership, the Republicans provide neither, and maybe the Democrats don’t always but they’re not the ones beating their chests and calling themselves paragons of virtue while they’re trying to get lucky in an airport bathroom with a male prostitute ( Fmr. Republican Senator Larry Craig).

Speaking of Republicans and deriliction of duty…

Here in Indiana, the legislature had to be called back into a special session because our Lame Duck Republican governor is hiding under his desk and offering no real answers on how to go about a state budget.

When Gov. Mitch Daniels does come out from under his desk, all he ever says is “Under my plan, education won’t be cut”, and failing to mention that’s because Indiana got the federal stimulus money from the Obama plan.

Meanwhile the Republicans in the legislature are fighting the “Daniels Plan” (if you can call it that, with their own plan which does in fact seek to slash education and Medicare and other things, and the Democrats have to fight the Republicans to stop them from doing that.

The Indiana government has effectively had a stroke of state between an ineffective governor who doubles as a compulsive liar, and the Republicans and Democrats fighting each other over the scraps.

Then if that wasn’t bad enough, the Republicans  are trying to hijack the special budget session (which is already costing Indiana taxpayers millions because of the Republican lack of leadership) with another bill to Constitutionally ban same-sex marriages, because apparently the biggest Republican concern with the looming  budget crisis that they have caused, is to distract with divisive social issues and to try to illegalize human rights that they already made illegal under statute years ago.

Indiana is a joke, I mean a big joke, and the bitch of the joke is that we still have over TWO BILLION DOLLARS left over from when our governor committed treason and leased our state assets to foreign companies years ago.

But we can’t touch that says Bush’s Man Mitch, because it’s a “Rainy Day Fund”.

It’s simply unbelievable that these Republican traitors, hypocrites, and high criminals keep getting reelected, largely because the people that always fucking turn out to vote are the Christians who will take the “Guns, Gods, and Gays” Republican lip service time and time again, while the same Republicans cheat on their wives, take lobbyist money from the companies they’re supposed to regulate, and sell public assets to foreign countries.

If you *are* a Republican and reading this, and voted for these types, I’m sorry to inform you that you were fucking stupid, but it’s never too late to redeem yourself, and if you feel like you can’t do any better next time, then here you go. Please STOP fucking up the country I have to live in.

The Samurai would disembowel themselves for fucking up far less than you people have.

Don’t get in the car with strangers and don’t trust RIAA executives with candy.

I just noticed a blog entry that found 62 more malicious lawsuits against individuals files by the Recording Industry Brownshirts of America.

Thing is this was supposed to have stopped in December when the RIAA said they would quit suing individuals.

It’s obvious that the RIAA never had any such intentions and knew that the “It’s over, we won!” crowd would go right back out into the open.

It’s part of their whole crooked business model, which seems to be geared towards filing a bunch of suits against so-called “John Doe”s and figuring out who you sued after the court orders someone’s identify from their ISP, the RIAA then at this point offers them an outrageous “settlement” in the amount of $10,000, $20,000 or more dollars, and the victim is intimidated by going to court, so sometimes they sign it.

What’s most alarming is that this corrupt organization has the ear of President Obama who is appointing them to high levels of the United States government.

Is this the change you voted for? We could have gotten that much from another 8 years of George Bush.

So look out dead people, single moms with no computer, and homeless men, everyone’s a target in the RIAA’s continuing shooting gallery!

The continued militarization of civilian police in the United States

US Marines or a SWAT Team? Can you tell?

First we give them military weaponry…..

Now they’re even wearing urban digital combat fatigues.

Can you tell if this is the United States or a street in Baghdad? Me neither.

Is there a culture of homophobia at work at Microsoft?

I picked this one up from a Boycott Novell post linking to a newspaper in the UK.

Microsoft apparently has a policy of allowing homophobic harassment to go unchecked in their workplace. In the same month, they apparently banned a XBOX Live customer for being a lesbian after she complained of harassment by other XBOX customers, because her sexual orientation apparently “offended other members of the XBOX community”.

This is not acceptable behavior for a buttoned down “professional” company, this is barbaric and uncivilized, and Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves and correct their behavior.

To Mr. Jamie Durrant, I really do hope you win your case, and with your skill I’m sure you can find another job at a company that appreciates your talent rather than concerning itself about your private life. I am posting this in solidarity having faced similar workplace harassment in a country and state where it’s widespread, accepted, and legal. (Indiana, United States)