Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has filed a petition with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. He objects to the three-judge panel’s 2-1 ruling that Virginia’s anti-sodomy law is unconstitutional, and he wants the full 15-member court to meet en banc to rehear the case. The case actually involved oral sex performed on an adult man by a 17-year old woman. They could have charged the man with endangering a minor or ephebophilia or something, but they charged him with sodomy instead, so the man’s conviction was thrown out. Mr. Cuccinelli is a candidate for governor and he’ll probably be facing off against Bill Clinton’s bagman, Terry McAuliffe.
North Carolina can’t really compete on the buttsex-statute front, but they have some lawmakers who want to go back to the days when the Constitution didn’t apply to the states and we could have Establishments of Religion, like Congregationalism in Massachusetts which was the official religion until the 1830’s. Will the Tarheel State choose Southern Baptist, Methodist, or Rastafarianism? In any case, someone better unfreeze William Tecumseh Sherman and get him down to the bullpen for some practice throws.
The stuff the Republicans are doing in the states is just nutty, but even RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is acting strange. Someone ought to tell him that infanticide involves the killing of an infant. A synonym for infant is “newborn.” Newborn and unborn don’t mean the same thing. I shouldn’t complain, though. I can’t spell that fucker’s name. I have to check it every time. Is it ie and then ei, or the other way around? I don’t remember the whole “i before e except after r” being a thing. With a name like that, I expect Priebus to be the first guy killed in a James Bond movie.
And then there’s Mark Sanford.
What you got?
“ephebophilia”
That was a new one to me. I had to look it up.
Sorry about that.
No. No. It’s good to stretch your mind.
Cuccinelli vs McAuliffe. Ugh! Pardon me while I barf. If I still lived in Virginia, I would vote for some third party candidate or just leave the office blank.
I don’t plan on voting for either of them. I wouldn’t be shocked if the “sane” Republican runs independent and wins. Both the main options are revolting from different angles.
I thought Bolling already said he wasn’t going to run.
He did. I’ll be voting for Terry…Jesus Christ.
he distillation of the two parties in one race. Not a pretty sight.
I’ll be voting for Terry too because “Kook” is not an option. Bolling has done nothing but hold a chair all these years. He does nothing. I’m glad he’s not a third party candidate at this point.
Look at Taliban Bob’s latest victory:
By one vote, Senate upholds McDonnell abortion amendment
Thus banning abortion and killing Obamacare with one stroke.
At least it isn’t Virginia that’s trying to re-establish religion. Although if they did they might have a new energy source–they’d just have to hook up electrical dynamos to Jefferson’s and Madison’s graves.
Sheriff in Vest VA was shot in front of the court house in Williamson WV. A man walk up to his car and shot him in the face. Are the guns bringing anarchy to the red states?
It’s a drug related killing. And when you are talking drug gangs and narco’s they’d be able to get guns even with a full on ban. While they do get them from the US because it’s cheaper they source them out of crooked militaries and other sources as well.
Guns aren’t the issue here. It’s extremely violent prison gangs and the whole war on drugs. They are targeting people who pushed back against specific gangs.
That’s a tradition in West Virginia.
Also see The Battle of Blair Mountain. I saw a show about that on the History Channel a few years ago. That was when THC actually had shows about history instead of the reality crap they have today.
Also regarding the Mingo County coal wars, John Sayles’ outstanding movie Matewan, based on those events, is set in that town in Mingo County, about ten miles (five as the crow flies) from Williamson.
Just added it to my “saved” netflix queue. Availibity is “unknown”.
Thanks for the movie rec. I’ll be watching it whenever Netflix sends it.
It won’t help with the spelling but it’s a good practice if one is intimate with Republicans.
Forget rinsing. Scrub thoroughly with antiseptic soap.
So, I went to an “Immigration Listening Session” for Representative Jeff Denham in Modesto, California. California CD 10 is a swing district; it’ll be contested in every election for the foreseeable future.
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church is huge; capacity was listed at 1,500, and it was SRO. PICO and allied organizers made it happen; testimonies from immigrants and their children were presented, one after another. They presented a multitude of heartrending stories which exposed the immoralities of the current policies.
There were about 10 TEA Party types; they were first identified through their little American flags which they ostentationally placed at the edge of their (two) pews. Their main identifier, though, was the gall they showed by shouting “ENFORCE THE LAWS!” periodically. Their alternative shout was “NO HABLA ESPANOL!”, directed to those who began their testimonies in Spanish.
After a while, a couple of them began to whine that the Town Hall was rigged; they tried to interrupt the event with their shouted complaints. They finally got off their asses and walked to the mic; there were some delays, but they got their shots. Their ignorant racist views were not booed or shouted down, despite the size and passions of the crowd; just a few sighs and mutters were heard in response.
So, consider two things: would 10 advocates of comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship even be allowed to stay in a church with 1,500 rabid conservative opponents if they began to shout out insults with the intent to interrupt the proceedings, or would police escort them out? And if they did by some miracle gain access to the mic to make a statement, would they be heard, or would they be viciously and loudly booed?
Yeah, that’s what I think, too.
What’s Sanford running on? Hypocrisy and tax cuts for the wealthy (including his ex-wife)? This will be a live IQ test for SC voters in this district.
They will flunk.
I so hope Miss South Carolina decides to campaign for Colbert Busch – I find Miss SC very charming.
And it’s so wonderful that Mark S asked his wife to run his campaign
Here’s how you spell it: RNC PR BS. Don’t worry about the verbs.
I think you mean don’t worry about the vowels, but verbs also I guess
Vowels is totally what I meant. Where did that pesky ‘verbs’ come from?
could be spell check, the Spawn of Satin
Thus, this works with Reince Priebus as you can listen to him say his name here.
Or except when you’re having weird seizures.
thanks for explaining this; I try to spell wierd, I say the rhyme and what I get always looks wierd so I change it … [usually]