Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Was it the Innovations catalogue that one had a charming photo smoothing away those irritating cheek cramps with a 'personal massage wand (batteries not included)' that looked... well, like it had run away from the nearest sex shop because the bigger vibrators kept beating it up.
Certainly killed my Christmas spirit - along with the last pathetic remnants of my libido.
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'Liaison'... 'Lesbian'...Connect the dots people!
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But the explicit rejection of all 15 of his complaints and the emphatic vindication of the investigation by an independent authority pretty much removes any case he has to present to the public.
Think again - just more prof that the racist Police establishment deals to the uppity brown boy yet again. One person rather conspicuous by his absence - at least from the reactions I've heard - has been Greg O'Connor. Considering he generally can't slag off fast enough any criticism of the Police - including from the old PCA - as politically correct anti-cop balls, you'd think Justice Goddard's shining endorsement of Operation Austin would have him dancing in the streets.
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And how could we forget Ron Paul: Can't quite make up my mind whether this is charmingly nerdy or flat out weird. (Hat-tip: Andrew Sullivan)
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His main whoopsie with potential Democrat voters so far has been failing to put sufficient distance between him and a preacher who claims to have been cured of homosexuality.
There's also the whole subtext about whether he's 'black' enough, but that's the kind of political pathology I can only handle in small and infrequent doses.
But I digress... The Donnie McClurkin affair didn't impress me much either, but Democrats and teh gays? Oy, talk about the political equivalent of battered spouse syndrome - write the checks and host the fundraisers, spend three years getting kicked in the guts when its politically expedient, rise and repeat. At least with the Republican establishment you know exactly where you are. On hot button 'culture war' issues like so-called gay marriage & DADT, it's fun (in a blackly comic kind of way) watching Obama and Clinton sweat fudge. I can see the political calculus - the gays are owned by our party, but there's not enough of them to risk offending anyone else - but it's still depressing.
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Ha ha. Now answer the bloody question, how do you reconcile being 'pro life' and 'pro death'?
Well, to be fair Emma it isn't only right-wingers trying to position themselves as moderates who start spinning more fudge than Willie Wonka on speed when asked that question. Seriously, what do think would happen to either Clinton or Obama if they stood up and said "I support abortion on demand, and oppose the death penalty because a felon - no matter how heinous - is a human being; a fetus during the first trimester is not." I may be wrong, but it sure seems to me a lot of people who consider themselves moderates or even liberals would consider than excessively candid.
You can deride the late John Paul II as a nasty old Polack reactionary, but at least when he talked about the 'culture of life' he was entirely consistent about it -- abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia were all wrong for the same reason. Life begins at conception, ends at natural death and God doesn't need any assist from you on the latter score.
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On the other side of the race, Hilary's in some trouble.
And the failure of Operation Barbarossa was some trouble for the Third Reich. Ok, that's an overwrought analogy but is her campaign loaded with Obama sleeper agents?
And before anyone accuses me of being a partisan Hillary-hater, WTF can I say about the unspeakable fuck-tards that make up the GOP slate that wouldn't get me sent to the (virtual) naughty step for a long time out? Perhaps when the GOP are locked out of the White House and Congressional majorities for a couple of decades, Republican moderates and real conservatives are going to get their spines out of hock, bring the theo-cons to heel, and take their party back.
Believe it or not, if I was American I'd change my voter registration to Democrat just so I could cast a primary vote for Obama. Not a flawless candidate by any stretch of the imagination, but forget all this crap about 'Is America ready for a black President' and ask this one: Is America - and the world - ready for a President who can be mistaken for an adult with the lights on?
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Maybe you should actually listen to the interviews before commenting?
I did listen to the Rickard interview -that exchange must have been drowned out by the sound of me banging my head against the computer desk in a vain attempt to make the pain stop.
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It would appear there’s not much money in his side of the story…
LOL... And did Willie ask the obvious follow up: 'And how much did our tax-paying listeners ultimately dish out to you during your years of suspension on full pay; and how much were you paid to just go away?"
O, silly me - of course he didn't.
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Willie Jackson said on Morning Report this morning that there were plenty of young men out there who've done bad things - should they be therefore barred from higher office?
So, I made the right decision to turn the radio to Concert FM as soon as Sean began to introduce Big Willie?
I think he assumed the answer was "no".
Well, it's seems pretty obvious they'll let any trash become an MP - and once you're in, the only forgivable crime is making the PM look like a fool more than once. :) But FFS, Willie, we're talking about someone who was widely tipped to be the next fraking Police Commissioner - a position that would require, IMNSHO, a damn sight better judgment that Rickards showed by talking to you.
Back in this dimesnion, there are plenty of young men - and women, for that matter - who do dumb shit that has lasting consequences. Unlike Rickards, they accept a bit of fucking personal responsibility for their actions and just get on with their damn lives. How about Clint gets off the pity pot for two seconds, and thank whatever God he believes in that he's not siharing an isolated cell block with his good mates Schollum and Shipton right now?
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