Army Recruiter: Are either of you homosexuals?
Winger: You mean like flaming, or part time?
Recruiter: Well, it's a question we have to ask of all our new recruits.
Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are "willing to learn."
Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
Recruiter: I'll just put that as a 'no'.
(from Stripes)
Sorry to be late to this party (have been overwhelmed trying to get out of town), but what to do about this nimrod? Looks like he's going to take a dive, as it were, so probably he'll get what's coming to him. So, other than confessing to having committed a crime, what, exactly did this guy do that toasted himself? No need to get into the hypocrisy of the whole thing. Craig, of course, strongly endorsed anti-gay marriage acts and other similar legislation.
Here are the reported facts: A police officer responding to complaints of sexual solicitation in airport mens' rooms first saw "an older white male with grey hair standing outside my stall." It was the senator. "I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, 'fidget' with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again." The officer said Craig then entered an adjacent stall. At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot," the report said. "I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot ... (Craig) moved his right foot so it touched the side of my left foot, which was within my stall area." Craig then swiped his hand under the stall divider, with Karsnia noting: "I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider." The senator was then placed under arrest. During the police interview, Craig showed the officer his Senate business card and said "What do you think about that?" Two months later, on Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty "by mail" to one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, paid $575 in fines and fees, received a stayed 10-day jail sentence and was put on unsupervised probation for a year. Then, when the story was reported on August 27th, he convened a press conference with his wife by his side, claimed he did not understand the nature of the charges he pleaded guilty to and did not have a lawyer, and made sure everyone knows that he is not gay.
Of course, the guy he thought the guy he was trying to pick up may have been gay.
Sorry to be late to this party (have been overwhelmed trying to get out of town), but what to do about this nimrod? Looks like he's going to take a dive, as it were, so probably he'll get what's coming to him. So, other than confessing to having committed a crime, what, exactly did this guy do that toasted himself? No need to get into the hypocrisy of the whole thing. Craig, of course, strongly endorsed anti-gay marriage acts and other similar legislation.
Here are the reported facts: A police officer responding to complaints of sexual solicitation in airport mens' rooms first saw "an older white male with grey hair standing outside my stall." It was the senator. "I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, 'fidget' with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again." The officer said Craig then entered an adjacent stall. At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot," the report said. "I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot ... (Craig) moved his right foot so it touched the side of my left foot, which was within my stall area." Craig then swiped his hand under the stall divider, with Karsnia noting: "I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider." The senator was then placed under arrest. During the police interview, Craig showed the officer his Senate business card and said "What do you think about that?" Two months later, on Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty "by mail" to one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, paid $575 in fines and fees, received a stayed 10-day jail sentence and was put on unsupervised probation for a year. Then, when the story was reported on August 27th, he convened a press conference with his wife by his side, claimed he did not understand the nature of the charges he pleaded guilty to and did not have a lawyer, and made sure everyone knows that he is not gay.
Of course, the guy he thought the guy he was trying to pick up may have been gay.
OK, first of all, why do I know every time Britney or Paris or Lindsay drive down the block without underwear, but it takes the media pack more than two months to find out that a United States Senator has been arrested for lewd conduct in an airport men's room? Nice to see the media right on top of things as usual.
Next, can we leave the wives out of this? How many times do we have to endure some idiot who either cheated on his wife or did something else horrifically embarrassing to her, only to drag her in front of a roomful of cameras to make sure everyone sees the poor wife? Now that he's screwed her over, he can use her even more to help bail him out of trouble. Stop hiding under your wife's skirt, like some 3 year old afraid of the rain. You get yourself into trouble, get yourself out of it. Wives of celebrities or politicians admittedly sign up for some degree of public view, but not this.
And how elegant to be trolling in the airport men's room. Aren't there other more sanitary things to do while you're waiting for your flight? Buy some gum, work a crossword. Don't camp out in the men's room stall running your hands under the divider.
The most alarming thing about this is that a US Senator claims he didn't understand the nature of the charges to which he pleaded guilty. This guy makes laws, right? Presumably he reads and considers arguments for and against laws, and understands something about them? If he can't understand what he's doing in pleading guilty to a crime, then how is the average person supposed to know what they're doing? Oh, and who gets to plead guilty by mail? Something tells me if I ever get arrested, I'm not going to get the chance to send in an absentee plea like I was voting in South Florida.
As for the "I'm not gay" denials, come on. That sounded like Mr. Garrison on South Park denying he's gay. What exactly was he doing then? When you get caught living a lie, and in his case what appears to be a huge lie, its time to fess up. Don't make it even worse with still more lies. Sincerely, Richard Nixon.
Finally, what's up with the Republicans? Mark Foley (sexual e-mails to underage pages), Jack Abramoff, David Vitter (phone number in DC madam's records), Ted Stevens (FBI investigation), Duke Cunningham (bribery). Now this? Lets be quite clear, the Democrats have their own roster of shame lately (congressmen with $90,000 in marked bills in their refrigerators, or the former NSA director walking out of the National Archives with classified documents in his bag, for example), but lots of these Republicans came to power on strong religious/moral platforms. Craig was a perfect example. Time to exercise a little more discipline.
I leave for Seattle in just a few hours. More then.
Next, can we leave the wives out of this? How many times do we have to endure some idiot who either cheated on his wife or did something else horrifically embarrassing to her, only to drag her in front of a roomful of cameras to make sure everyone sees the poor wife? Now that he's screwed her over, he can use her even more to help bail him out of trouble. Stop hiding under your wife's skirt, like some 3 year old afraid of the rain. You get yourself into trouble, get yourself out of it. Wives of celebrities or politicians admittedly sign up for some degree of public view, but not this.
And how elegant to be trolling in the airport men's room. Aren't there other more sanitary things to do while you're waiting for your flight? Buy some gum, work a crossword. Don't camp out in the men's room stall running your hands under the divider.
The most alarming thing about this is that a US Senator claims he didn't understand the nature of the charges to which he pleaded guilty. This guy makes laws, right? Presumably he reads and considers arguments for and against laws, and understands something about them? If he can't understand what he's doing in pleading guilty to a crime, then how is the average person supposed to know what they're doing? Oh, and who gets to plead guilty by mail? Something tells me if I ever get arrested, I'm not going to get the chance to send in an absentee plea like I was voting in South Florida.
As for the "I'm not gay" denials, come on. That sounded like Mr. Garrison on South Park denying he's gay. What exactly was he doing then? When you get caught living a lie, and in his case what appears to be a huge lie, its time to fess up. Don't make it even worse with still more lies. Sincerely, Richard Nixon.
Finally, what's up with the Republicans? Mark Foley (sexual e-mails to underage pages), Jack Abramoff, David Vitter (phone number in DC madam's records), Ted Stevens (FBI investigation), Duke Cunningham (bribery). Now this? Lets be quite clear, the Democrats have their own roster of shame lately (congressmen with $90,000 in marked bills in their refrigerators, or the former NSA director walking out of the National Archives with classified documents in his bag, for example), but lots of these Republicans came to power on strong religious/moral platforms. Craig was a perfect example. Time to exercise a little more discipline.
I leave for Seattle in just a few hours. More then.
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Great work.
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