Sound Bites

I honestly didn't think this would happen but it did.

Yesterday, Scotland released Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, because he is dying of cancer. He was returned to Libya to live out the three months he supposedly has left.

I am with most people on this. Howsabout looking al-Megrahi in the eye when he asks to go home to die and tell him he should have thought about that before he took the lives of 270 other people.

He was shown compassion after he chose not to show compassion.

Big mistake, Scotland. Big mistake.

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Senator Edward Kennedy, terminally ill with brain cancer, has asked state legislative leaders to change the law and let Governor Deval Patrick appoint a temporary replacement upon his death.

As it stands now, Massachusetts would hold a special election months after Kennedy dies to elect a replacement. Kennedy would like the transition to be much quicker because he wants Massachusetts to have full representation in the Senate during that five-month period.

Until 2004, state law called for the governor to appoint a temporary replacement if a Senate seat became vacant, but when John Kerry was running for president that year, the Democratic-controlled state legislature wanted to deny the governor at the time--Mitt Romney--the power to name a successor if Kerry won.
In his letter, Kennedy says that he supported the 2004 law, but added, “I also believe it is vital for this Commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate during the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election.” he also asked that Governor Patrick “obtain, as a condition of appointment of the interim Senator, an explicit personal commitment not to become a candidate in the special election.”
Edward Kennedy does not want a temporary appointee to run for his seat because he wants "to ensure that whomever received that appointment did not have any head start or advantage in the special election.”

Sounds like a reasonable request. of course, the Republicans aren't going to like it, but then they apparently don't like anything except for adultery.

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Out there in the wild, wild west, round Nevada way, the secretary of state's office will begin taking applications from couples who wish to register as domestic partners.

Same- and opposite-sex couples who apply soon will receive their certificates of domestic partnership on October 1.

That's the day a new state law goes into effect extending rights similar to those held by married couples to cohabitating couples, whether gay or straight, who register with the secretary of state's office.

I don't get Nevada. They legalize prostitution. They have gambling and drinking and organized crime and $1.99 All-You-Can-Eat buffets, but they don't like the idea of the gays getting married. I mean, the domestic partnership thing is nice, but it's 'less than' and I don't like it.

See, it's like this, without the gays, who'd wait on all those tourists in all those restaurants; there'd be no bellhops and room service attendants; who'd sew the sequins on the stripper's G-string? Back-up dancers and chorus boys? Not any more!

Nevada needs the gays and should give them whatever they want to keep 'em happy.

Just sayin'.

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Michael Moore: "I'm still in a stupor of stunned ecstasy that Obama won. And I approve of most everything he's done, from apologizing to the Iranians for America overthrowing their democratically elected president in 1953 to appointing Kumar to a White House position. He is doing the best he can with the mess he inherited, and I and millions of others are counting on him never to forget that he came from the working class and that his people need him now more than ever. As for the congressional Democrats, what a bunch of losers -- weak, scared, stupid. They had better get a clue pretty quick or the Dark Forces will return."

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The Iowa Civil Rights Commission, a seven-member bipartisan panel whose duty is "to enforce state and federal statutes that prohibit discrimination in employment, public accommodations, housing, education and credit by investigating and litigating civil rights complaints," voted unanimously yesterday that it would formally oppose any effort to overturn any constitutional amendment that would overturn the state's same-sex marriage law. In addition, the panel also voted to formally support the decision of the Iowa Supreme Court in allowing same-sex couples to marry.

You know, for one of the squares states in the middle, Iowa sure is progressive.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: I Heart Iowa!