Illinois just has a high rate of successful prosecution of ex-governors.
Yeah.
It just proves the system is working....
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2006 8:46:09 am PDT #1722 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kathy A - Apr 17, 2006 8:46:52 am PDT #1723 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's two convicted ex-govs in twenty years, though--rather high rate. (Daniel Walker served two years in federal prison for S&L hijinks in the late 80s.)
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2006 8:50:07 am PDT #1724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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Yeah, I didn't parse it right myself either.
Kronus Automatic Wire Stripper.
But I got that one right.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2006 8:52:11 am PDT #1725 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Quote of the Day: "Woman's sexual organ is like the open mouth of a snake filled with poison.” —Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose pastors, under George W. Bush's Healthy Marriage Initiative and abstinence-only grants, have won nearly $1 million in public funding. Read the rest of this. It’s wild.
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2006 8:53:49 am PDT #1726 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Ohio is trying to do Illinois one better by prosecuting a sitting governor.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2006 8:55:12 am PDT #1727 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Please tell me that the Moonie religion is based on a Monty Python sketch. It's the only way to explain comments like:
"After the act of love," read the instructions from the Rev. Moon's conservative Family Federation, "both spouses should wipe their sexual areas with the Holy Handkerchief. Hang the handkerchief[s] to dry naturally and keep them eternally. They must be kept individually labeled and should never be laundered and mixed up."
[eta: It took me until I posted to fully comprehend the "should never be laundered" part of that quote. Now that I have....ew.]
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2006 8:59:27 am PDT #1728 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do Wet Naps count as Holy Handkerchiefs?
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2006 8:59:45 am PDT #1729 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Revere that wet spot, people.
Fred Pete - Apr 17, 2006 9:01:51 am PDT #1730 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
This must be my random observation day. From Kathy's link:
One investigator testified that Dean Bauer, Ryan's handpicked inspector general, refused to let him investigate a 1994 crash outside Milwaukee in which six children of Duane and Janice Willis were killed.
Um, maybe I'm missing something here. But why would the governor of Illinois have anything to do with investigating a crash in Wisconsin?
both spouses should wipe their sexual areas with the Holy Handkerchief
Am I the only one who added the words, "of Antioch"?
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2006 9:04:06 am PDT #1731 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Um, maybe I'm missing something here. But why would the governor of Illinois have anything to do with investigating a crash in Wisconsin?
Um.... the IL Gov was involved in a "License for bribes" scandal, where truck licenses were "sold" (eta: so the drivers didn't have to pass the test) and the bribe money funneled to his campaign. A truck driver who got his license this way got into an accident in WI that killed some kids.