Typical Republican Hypocrisy

“Way too many. I think all Republicans would agree with that. What's you point? You can't talk about values unless you are perfect?”

“my point is to show the hypocrisy. those who live in glass houses...?

i imagine you'll also call XL and stovestomper out when they spout off about the libbies? or does it only bother you when its your ox being gored?”

“hb, you have no point.”

“check the top of your head....theres your point”

“Clever comeback. Didn't think you could come up with anything that good. I'm humbled.”

“A country that occupies the main source of opium ( production way up) and one of the main sources of oil ( production way down), has people that can't be trusted?”

“Ha hahahahaha.

Wait, is Almond really this guy?



It's Darth!
last edited: 7/13/07 10:20:10 AM”

“
I used to see you on every TV
Your smiling face looked back at me
I used to see you on every TV
Your smiling face looked back at me…

Then they caught you with the girl next door
People's money piled on the floor
Accusations that you tried to deny
Revelations and rumors began to fly…

Now you think about reaching out
Maybe get some help… From Above…
Now you think about reaching out
Maybe get some help… From Above…

Reporters crowd around your house
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds
Speculating what they may find out
It don't matter now… You're All Washed Up

You wake up in the middle of the night
Your sheets are wet and your face is white
You tried to make a good thing last
How could something so good, go bad, so fast?

American Dream… American Dream…
American Dream… American Dream…

Don't know where things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong
Don't know where things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong

Reporters crowd around your house
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds
Speculating what they may find out
It don't matter now… You're All Washed Up

Don't know where things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong

American Dream… American Dream…

Don't know where things went wrong
Might have been when you were young and strong

American Dream… American Dream…



“American Dream”
(Neil Young)
American Dream (1988)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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“Of course this could easily apply to a ton of Democrats one could name .... but experience has shown that Republicans are just slightly more craven.”

“Nichole R. Nason, President Bush's newly appointed administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (and a lawyer by trade), put a new rule into effect that NHTSA officials, including scientists and engineers, are no longer allowed to be quoted by reporters, according to the New York Times. If the officials want to say anything it has to be off the record. The only one they can quote is Nason herself. She, however, refused to be interviewed about the no-attribution policy.

link to story”

“Criminals covering their tracks.”

“Well I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it
Cause I know just what I'm gonna do
I'll start to spend my money
Callin' everybody honey
And wind up singin' the blues
I'll spend my whole paycheck on some old wreck
And brother I can name you a few

Well I gotta get drunk I just can't stay sober
There's a lot of good people in town who wanna hear me holler,
See me spend my dollars,
and I wouldn't think of lettin' `em down

There's a lot of doctors that tell me
I better start slowin' it down
But there's more old drunks than there are old doctors
So I think that I'll have another round!”

“More mountains out of molehills.
Big Deal.
Nearly every Federal Employee not in management has that same restriction. Doesn't make any difference if Dems or Repubs are in power.”

“No StoveStomper! This is BIG! BIG I tell 'ya! It's bigga than all of us! cha cha cha”

“LOL”

“You did see where NASA got a new Inspector General and broadcast an email asking whether anyone's research had been tampered with to conform to the Party Line on climate research?  Republican appointees at NASA HQ also attempted a similar 'no-attribution' gag order and it blew up in their faces.

Am still waiting for the results to go public.

Man, you should've seen Democrats and Republicans alike rip the old IG a new one at the Subcommittee Hearing.... I think it was back in June.  He was like a bad xerox of the scuz Bush put in charge of the Smithsonian.”

“Nearly every Federal Employee not in management has that same restriction.

StoveStomper
3:28:38 PM
8/23/07

"...it is a radical change from the way N.H.T.S.A has operated for at least 20 years.

I found this out recently when I asked to talk to an N.H.T.S.A. researcher about some technical safety issues in which he had a great deal of expertise. Agency officials told me I could talk to the expert on a background basis, but if I wanted to use any information or quotes from him, that would have to be worked out later with a N.H.T.S.A. official. The arrangement struck me as manipulative, and I declined to agree to it.

It seems that Ms. Nason has adopted a policy that has blocked virtually all of her staff — including the communications office — from providing any information to reporters on the record, which means that it can be attributed.

As an alternative I was told I could interview Ms. Nason on the record (instead of the expert on the subject of my article). I declined, failing to see how her appointment as administrator made her a expert in that subject.

“My God,” said Joan Claybrook, who was N.H.T.S.A. administrator from 1977 to 1981 and is now president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. Given that N.H.T.S.A. is the leading source of automotive safety information in the United States, its researchers are public officials and people are entitled to “know what information they have, whether it is on paper or in their heads,” Ms. Claybrook said.”

“when I asked to talk to an N.H.T.S.A. researcher about some technical safety issues in which he had a great deal of expertise. Agency officials told me I could talk to the expert on a background basis, but if I wanted to use any information or quotes from him, that would have to be worked out later with a N.H.T.S.A. official - trollboy

Thanks for proving my point.”

“your point was...?”