tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55539102011-04-21T13:42:22.688-04:00The Felonious ElephantA blog dedicated to tracking the high crimes and misdemeanors of Republican politicians everywhere.Ronnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1117666793178642962005-06-01T18:57:00.000-04:002005-06-01T18:59:53.183-04:00Council urges mayor to quitSpokane Mayor James E. West has gotten the bum's rush from the city council, which recently voted to ask West to quit his office. The mayor, a major homophobe during most of his political career, was caught red-handed last month propositioning what he thought were gay men on-line. West promised his paramours jobs with the city. Read about his on-going humiliation here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1116808306425196492005-05-22T20:28:00.000-04:002005-05-22T20:31:46.426-04:00Coin scam rocks Ohio GOPWhat do you call a state workers compensation investment fund that dumps $50 million into rare coin purchases? I'm guessing you'd call it corrupt and look for the bad pennies who wasted taxpayer dollars. That's the situation in Ohio tonight where a Maumee rare coin dealer with close ties to the state Republican Party has caused the biggest scandal in recent state Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1116807963254266692005-05-22T20:25:00.000-04:002005-05-22T20:26:03.256-04:00Former Rethug candidate faces drug chargesRamie Reisman Resnick of Cleveland, Ohio, is a pretty well-known defense attorney in those parts. Part of her fame rests on her candidacy as a Republican judicial and clerk of court candidate back in the 1990s. Things have come full circle for Resnick, however, since February when she was charged with cocaine possession by Miami University police. In Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1116457832819863452005-05-18T19:07:00.000-04:002005-05-18T19:10:32.820-04:00City councilman faces abuse chargeCincinnati, Ohio, City Councilman Sam Malone, a Republican, is facing child abuse charges after he beat his teenage son with a belt. Malone is apparently a serial family abuser. His mother, Drusilla, accused him of choking her in a 1991 complaint. Ironically -- or not -- Malone is a former Golden Gloves boxer. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1116457554894193022005-05-18T18:28:00.000-04:002005-05-18T19:05:54.900-04:00Kentucky governor's aides probedState attorney general investigators raided the offices of two aides to Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher Tuesday. Agents seized boxes of documents from the offices. Dave Disponett, treasurer of the state Republican Party, was the target of one of the searches. The AG is investigating allegations that Fletcher's administration used political criteria rather than merit Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1116455163963741482005-05-18T18:17:00.000-04:002005-05-18T18:26:03.973-04:00Bolton linked to swingers havenJohn Bolton has about as much business being the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations as my labrador retriever does practicing neurosurgery. Nevertheless, the mustachioed blowhard is likely to find himself ensconced in the organization he so publicly despises. Bolton, however, has an interesting skeleton in his closet, one involving an ex-wife who left him abruptlyRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115946771524707972005-05-12T21:07:00.000-04:002005-05-13T15:24:54.900-04:00News outlets protect CongressmanSince when is it not news when a Congressman is caught spending some quality time with a woman who is not his wife? When you're a Congressman from northeastern Pennsylvania and the local news outlets go to great lengths to keep your name out of the police blotter. Republican Don Sherwood is our perp. A 29 year-old woman called police last September after she said Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115335832321936942005-05-05T19:25:00.000-04:002005-05-05T19:30:32.326-04:00The Flying Von Kloberg ReduxRenowned blogger and political analyst Murray Waas dropped me a line to share his take on the life of Edward Von Kloberg, Republican lobbyist to the dictators. It's well worth the read and a healthy antidote to the fawning obits published by the Washington Post and MSNBC. Read it here. Murray's blog, Whatever Already!, can be relished here. I can't believe Murray Waas Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115334958652593952005-05-05T19:10:00.000-04:002005-05-05T19:15:58.660-04:00Rethug mayor accused of molestationSpokane, Washington's, right-wing Republican mayor has been accused by two local men of molesting them when they were children in the 1970s. Mayor James E. West denies the allegations and says he'll finish out his latest four-year term. That's debatable, since the city's newspaper outed West recently, setting a honey trap on Gay.com that caught the mayor Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115156558477103832005-05-03T17:36:00.000-04:002005-05-03T17:42:38.476-04:00Rethug AG candidate haunted by hubbyJeanine Pirro already has enough baggage of her own going into her bid for New York Attorney General. Now, her Republican husband is piling on with his own woes, most of which center around his dealings with our friends in silk suits (God bless Jerry Orbach, wherever he may be). Al Pirro's Mob problem has already forced him to bolt the Republican Party. Will itRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115156053677490002005-05-03T17:29:00.000-04:002005-05-03T17:36:21.670-04:00Fat Boy one step closer to prisonTalent on Loan From Cell Block D -- that's the unappetizing future looming for Rush Limbaugh now that Florida's Supreme Court has refused to hear the loathsome radio hack's claim that his privacy was invaded when his medical records were seized during an investigation into his illegal drug purchases. Enjoy his agony here. For additional gits and shiggles, read Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115155664173353602005-05-03T17:23:00.000-04:002005-05-03T17:27:44.173-04:00Volunteers neededI need some help here at the Felonious Elephant, namely someone to take on the challenge of getting more exposure for this fine journalistic endeavor. This blog is a labor of love for me, so don't expect any monetary payment. But I am pretty expansive when it comes to appreciating what you've done. E-mail me if you're interested.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1115155393558970492005-05-03T17:15:00.000-04:002005-05-03T17:23:13.560-04:00Lobbyist takes a final flingIn life, Edward von Kloberg III was a louse, a Republican lobbyist whose clientele formed a Who's Who of late 20th Century dictatorships. In death, Kloberg the louche becomes the subject of a vapory obituary in the Washington Post and picked up here by MSNBC. Kloberg threw himself off a building in Rome last week. Maybe it suddenly dawned on him that he epitomized Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109285996050360542005-02-24T17:56:00.000-05:002005-02-24T17:59:56.050-05:00Janklow conviction standsFormer South Dakota Gov. William Janklow's conviction for second-degree murder and reckless driving has been upheld by the South Dakota Supreme Court. Janklow was convicted at trial of killing motorcyclist Randy Scott after running a stop sign in August, 2003. Janklow sought to quash the conviction, arguing there wasn't enough evidence to support the charges. Read about Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109285172785900252005-02-24T17:43:00.000-05:002005-02-24T17:46:12.786-05:00Election sucker bet costs casinosSeveral New Jersey casinos face fines from the Federal Elections Commission for illegal campaign contributions to William Gormley, the Republican candidate in the 2000 race for U.S. Senator. It's the usual corporate boodling involving the casinos holding campaign fundraisers for Gormley and muscling contributions out of employees. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109284900673575032005-02-24T17:38:00.000-05:002005-02-24T17:41:40.673-05:00War is berry, berry good to BuckyWar may endanger children and other living things, but it sure puts money in the bank. For George W. Bush's uncle, William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, the Iraq War has enriched him to the tune of $450,000. That's how much Bucky banked last month when he sold stock options in the St. Louis defense firm Engineered Support Systems, Inc. In true Bush style, Bucky turned his Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109024936834492112005-02-21T17:25:00.000-05:002005-02-21T17:28:56.836-05:00Private firm screws up FloridaGod help you if you are an employee of the State of Florida. Gov. Jeb Bush, who will no doubt be foisted upon the rest of us as a serious Presidential candidate in 2008, has hired a private firm to handle the state's personnel system. How much of a success has privatization been? Howard Troxler of the St. Petersburg Times raves about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109024604111110982005-02-21T17:18:00.000-05:002005-02-21T17:23:24.113-05:00Washington Times has links to whackosThe headline may not sound very current, given the fact that the Times is owned and operated by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and has been the house organ for the far-right Republican Party -- as opposed to the Wall Street Journal's cheerleading for big business -- for several decades. But the Southern Poverty Law Center has uncovered some disturbing links between Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1109024257504607582005-02-21T17:12:00.000-05:002005-02-21T17:17:37.506-05:00We'll supply the journalistsWorked up in a lather about the emerging White House propensity for hedging its political bets with outright propaganda (illegal under U.S. law) with fake journalists and all? No, you're right, they're not much worse whores than what passes for the Main-Stream Media (MSM for all you hip inside-the-Beltway types) these days. Frank Rich has another outstanding column in Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1108820406734127092005-02-19T08:37:00.000-05:002005-02-19T08:40:06.736-05:00Md. Gov's henchmen firing employeesMaryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.'s, reign of terror in Annapolis continues. The latest target of Ehrlich's seemingly inexhaustible well of ill will is state employees. He's had henchmen at various state agencies drawing up lists of employees to fire. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1108678907240969552005-02-17T17:17:00.000-05:002005-02-17T17:21:47.243-05:00Alaska AG quits over conflict of interestAlaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes is out of office on his ass after an apparent conflict of interest left the state's usually Republican-friendly media baying for his blood. Renkes is in trouble over a state trade deal he helped broker which could benefit a company in which he has invested $120,000. Renkes blames the So-Called Liberal Media and partisanRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1108678606109375472005-02-17T17:12:00.000-05:002005-02-17T17:16:46.113-05:00Oregon freeloader heads campaign reformRep. Derrick Kitts, a Hillsborough Republican, is in charge of a legislative committee that will evaluate campaign reform for Oregon's state legislature. At the same time, Kitts is under scrutiny for taking full advantage of the existing state campaign funding laws that allow legislators to spend unused funds for damn near anything. Kitts has been caught Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1108508472435283892005-02-15T17:55:00.000-05:002005-02-15T18:01:12.436-05:00Rethug prosecutor faces hard timeOne day you're a Republican prosecutor in West Texas, ruining people's lives with abandon; the next you're having your own life ripped to shreds just because you have a meth addiction and shoot up in front of staff members. So it goes with former prosecutor Richard James Roach. Roach faces ten years in federal stir and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced for Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1108508035994987362005-02-15T17:49:00.000-05:002005-02-15T17:53:55.996-05:00Donor didn't get ambassadorshipIt's no secret that Republicans trade high office for big favors, especially big campaign donations. There's an unwritten protocol, however, that one doesn't mention the spoils system, especially when one is a favored recipient. Someone tell Nebraska bidness baron Duane Acklie this, because he's spilled the beans about his frustrated attempts to get an Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1107902283037443332005-02-08T17:34:00.000-05:002005-02-08T17:38:03.036-05:00GOP official caught with child porn Jeff Patti, chairman of the Sparta, New Jersey, Republican Party says he won't resign office or quit the Sussex County Republican Party Executive Committe after he was arrested for possession of child pornography. Patti was busted Jan. 27 for posting explicit phots of a 5 year-old girl on the Internet. Read about it here. Thanks to Stentor for finding this Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1107901549644978982005-02-08T17:22:00.000-05:002005-02-08T17:25:49.646-05:00Phone jammer headed to the joint Allen Raymond of GOP Marketplace LLC will be spending five months in prison after he was sentenced Tuesday for his part in organizing a phone jamming operation against the Democratic Party in New Hampshire in 2002. Chuck McGee, former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party will be sentenced for his involvement in the scheme next month. One Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106778145143598222005-01-26T17:17:00.000-05:002005-01-26T19:05:37.740-05:00Another right-wing black columnist caught on dole Remember when the Man just wanted to keep a brother down? The Bush Administration's admirable attempts at uplifting the conservative African-American continue with revelations that syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher (who is to all intents and purposes white -- hey, who says the White House is competent?) received $21,500 from the U.S. Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106610336275748602005-01-24T18:42:00.000-05:002005-01-24T18:45:36.276-05:00Rethug Miami rioters remembered Remember the photos of conspicuously middle-class white people rioting outside the doors of the Dade County ballot recount room in 2000? Each one of those assholes was eventually outed as a Rethug party employee, employee of a GOP elected official or other connected turd. Today's Washington Post has a "where are they now?" story. Unfortunately, none of them have Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106527324823765612005-01-23T19:40:00.000-05:002005-01-23T19:42:04.823-05:00Take a trip to The Dork Ages I have started a new blog to collect tales of the wingnut religious right and its evil leadership. You can catch The Dork Ages here. Send me your stories of goofy right-wing religious fanaticism.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106526370922151032005-01-23T19:21:00.000-05:002005-01-23T19:26:10.923-05:00College Rethugs bilk seniors with dementia The College Republican National Committee is facing serious questions about its fund-raising practices after it was caught using front committees in its direct mail campaign. The problem is that donors thought their money was going to the Republican Party. The College Republican National Committee is not officially part of the GOP. The college-aged Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106526037365759772005-01-23T19:14:00.000-05:002005-01-23T19:20:37.366-05:00Rethug economist caught stealing The chief economist for Congress' Small Business Committee has been nabbed in the process of stealing a 42-inch plasma screen television. Tom Loo was caught red-handed helping himself to the $7,000 flat-screen set, which had been hanging in the Financial Services Committee board room. A staffer for Democratic Rep. Barney Frank was the man who caught Loo hauling Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106437654752078512005-01-22T18:26:00.000-05:002005-01-22T18:47:34.753-05:00Wisconsin Republican indicted in campaign fund scandal The former co-owner of a Wisconsin construction company is facing federal charges after authorities determined that he had illegally funneled over $120,000 in embezzled company funds to various Republican campaigns, including that of President George W. Bush. Robert Mann is accused of stealing more than $4 million from Mann Brothers Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1106436147916857252005-01-22T18:19:00.000-05:002005-01-22T18:22:27.916-05:00Utah Rethug defends polygamy Utah State Sen. Carlene Walker believes in polygamy. The Republican lawmaker passed out pro-polygamy propaganda to other members of the Utah Senate this week in an attempt to counter anti-polygamy material passed out by a Democratic lawmaker. Despite Walker's thumbs' up, polygamy remains illegal in Mormonland. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105577760007871762005-01-12T19:49:00.000-05:002005-01-12T19:56:00.006-05:00Fundie loon faces criminal charges When Michael Marcavage complained about a Christ-like gay character in a play performed at Temple University in 1999, he was forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Now, it's five years later and in George Bush's America, Marcavage is not only free to roam the streets, he's also allowed to pursue his obsessive hatred of homosexuals. The leader of Repent Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105577318631279222005-01-12T19:44:00.000-05:002005-01-12T19:48:38.633-05:00Rethug coroner busted on drug, theft charges Karen Gilbertson, the Republican coroner for Rock County, Wisconsin, is in a heap of trouble after being arrested on charges of stealing prescription medications from death scenes (good thing we no longer put coins on dead people's eyes, eh?) and cashing payments for cremations from area funeral homes. Rock County D.A. David O'Leary confirmed that the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105576557328760102005-01-12T19:31:00.000-05:002005-01-12T19:35:57.330-05:00Ridge faces conflict of interest scrutiny Former Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge may have some 'splainin' to do after Associated Press reporters discovered that Ridge made two overnight visits to a lobbyist friend's home at a time when that same lobbyist was trying to get contracts with the Department of Homeland Security. David Girard-diCarlo denies any conflict of interest. He hired two of Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105489614085212722005-01-11T19:22:00.000-05:002005-01-11T19:26:54.086-05:00Connecticut Governor, Dems push ethics reform Just weeks after a former governor went to prison on federal fraud charges, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democrats in the state legislature are calling for tougher ethics laws for public officials. Rell may find her fellow Republicans digging their heels in. "The quest for publicity and headlines is stronger than the quest to make it happen," Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105489304108103472005-01-11T19:16:00.000-05:002005-01-11T19:21:44.110-05:00Signature-seeking felons may cost Thuggie run for office Republican Gregg Underheim's bid to become Wisconsin's Superintendent of Public Education may have been torpedoed by revelations that Underheim hired two convicted felons to collect signatures on a petition to include him on this year's ballot. Wisconsin law forbids felons from participating in the ballot petition process. The loss of the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105222043893621732005-01-08T17:02:00.000-05:002005-01-08T17:07:23.893-05:00So-Called Liberal Media ejects columnist The crap that Armstrong Williams spouted as one of the nation's few radical right black columnists was just dandy with the SCLM until Williams got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It seems the U.S. Department of Education paid Williams $242,000 to publicly tout the No Child Left Behind Act during President Bush's first term. Tribune Media Services Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105221737585346592005-01-08T16:58:00.000-05:002005-01-08T17:10:37.356-05:00Gingrich prepares 2008 Presidential run Yes, that's right -- Newt Gingrich thinks he has a shot at being elected President in 2008. If nothing else, Gingrich's bizarre hallucinations about his electability on a national scale ought to speak volumes about the basic unreality governing the political climate inside the Beltway. Hot damn, I can't wait for him to formally announce his candidacy! Read Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1105221516914191902005-01-08T16:55:00.000-05:002005-01-08T16:58:36.913-05:00Blackwell seeks illegal campaign contributions Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the man who did whatever it took to put the Buckeye State in the Bush column this past November, is in hot water over a letter he sent out recently seeking campaign contributions from corporate donors. Ohio does not allow corporations to donate to political campaigns. Blackwell, of course, is back-pedaling Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1104601626365471412005-01-01T13:45:00.000-05:002005-01-01T12:47:06.366-05:00Felonious Tycoon is back The Felonious Tycoon is back in business, documenting the evil that corporations and their top executives do. You can visit using the link to your right.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1104600490510913772005-01-01T13:23:00.000-05:002005-01-01T12:28:10.510-05:00DeLay crony seeks dismissal of charges John Colyandro, former head of Texans for a Republican Majority and an associate of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom "The Bugman" DeLay, has asked a Texas court to dismiss charges of accepting illegal corporate funds filed against him. Colyandro's argument is that he's not an elected official, candidate or political committee and, consequently, his actions Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1104600096295270262005-01-01T13:19:00.000-05:002005-01-01T12:21:36.296-05:00Come on in! The cathouse is open! House Republicans are talking about doing away with the ethics rule that bans behavior that might bring discredit on the institution as a whole. Remember when this band of nuts and thieves was saying we needed to throw Bill Clinton out of office because his behavior had discredited the Presidency? Read about their latest hypocrisy here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1104599848125167512005-01-01T13:12:00.000-05:002005-01-01T12:17:28.126-05:00Feds expand definition of torture The Justice Department, after years of criticism from human rights groups and others, has decided to re-define torture to exclude many practices that are currently legal under a 2002 memo drafted by the department. While this is good news for civilized behavior, it should cause concern on Capitol Hill. That's because the man who wrote the original memo allowing Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1104176583313134962004-12-27T14:37:00.000-05:002004-12-27T14:43:03.313-05:00Government corruption probes multiply Does it seem like more politicians are under scrutiny than ever before? Well, it may not be your imagination. The Justice Department says federal probes have grown by 15% in the past four years. Read for yourself here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103891220226350852004-12-24T07:22:00.000-05:002004-12-24T07:27:00.226-05:00Hit and run GOP driver faces charges A 73 year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, man is facing charges of hit and run and assault with a deadly weapon after police arrested him for hitting a protestor outside a fundraiser that President Bush was attending Sept. 17. James Whitner drove up onto a sidewalk, hitting protestor Alex Kramer and sending him sprawling onto the hood of Whitner's car. Whitner Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103890850204759032004-12-24T07:08:00.000-05:002004-12-24T07:20:50.203-05:00Former Connecticut governor pleads guilty to corruption Once a rising star in national Republican political circles, former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland completed his dive into infamy by pleading guilty to federal charges of fraud this week. Rowland admitted taking nearly $100,000 in illegal gifts while in office. He could spend as much as five years in prison. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103757076658398512004-12-22T18:05:00.000-05:002004-12-22T18:11:16.656-05:00Phone-jamming Rethug indicted James Tobin, former New England chair of the Bush/Cheney campaign, has been indicted on charges of phone-jamming a New Hampshire Democratic Party get-out-the-vote drive in November, 2002. Read about it here, here and here. And be glad that our hero, Stentor, is on the eternal look-out for stories about Republican ne'er-do-wells. Bet he's never photocopied his Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103756563676943642004-12-22T17:58:00.000-05:002004-12-22T18:04:37.546-05:00Thief uses Republican ties to swindle over $1 million Kendall County, Illinois, Republican precinct committee chair Frank Devine is our free-market player of the day. Devine earned this distinction by using his ties to an unnamed Illinois Republican Congressman to bilk investors out of $1.9 million. Devine used visits to the unnamed Illinois Republican Congressman to convince his suckers...er, Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103756239549739052004-12-22T17:53:00.000-05:002004-12-22T17:57:19.550-05:00High shurf doles out payback to opponents Phoenix, Arizona, voters having seen fit to return their psychopathic sherrif, Joe Arpaio, to office, the good sheriff has wasted no time in claiming a mandate to kick butt and take the names of people who have pissed him off. Since his re-election in November, Arpaio has shuffled 150 or so of his deputies to new positions -- some to nicer assignments andRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1103755855221139622004-12-22T17:46:00.000-05:002004-12-22T17:50:55.220-05:00Your tax dollars at work Having buyer's remorse about those photocopies of your butt from the office Christmas party? Well, sit back, relax and enjoy the exploits of Republican evil-doers who make the Grinch look like Rotarian of the Year. We start tonight with our nation's military-industrial complex, which seems to have turned Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1100737226092726132004-11-17T19:14:00.000-05:002004-11-17T19:20:26.093-05:00"I'm a uniter, not a divider..." Folks in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, are finding out the hard way that Republicans and ethical behavior are usually two ships passing in the night. The village president, one Jefferson Davis (that shoulda been a tip-off right there) is facing felony charges arising from his campaign funding. Davis was supposed to be leading Menomonee Falls into a new era of Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1100736791163198702004-11-17T19:07:00.000-05:002004-11-17T19:13:11.163-05:00County commish busted on drug charges Cherokee County, Georgia, Commissioner Ilona Sanders says she won't resign her office despite a recent arrest on drug charges. Her fellow commissioners have formally censured the two-term Republican. Read about it here and here. Sanders' term in office ends in January. During her unsuccessfull run for re-election this past summer, she described herself as a "Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1100736449261364002004-11-17T18:57:00.000-05:002004-11-17T19:07:29.260-05:00Lame-duck session starts with Rethug hypocrisy We're back from a post-election break and not a moment too soon. House Republicans voted by voice vote behind closed doors today to strike down a party rule that requires party leaders to step down if they are indicted on criminal charges. The rule was originally installed following the 1994 election when Republicans seized control of the House. Now Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1099183228496249932004-10-30T20:15:00.000-04:002004-10-30T20:40:28.496-04:00The Emperor has no clothes The Felonious Elephant whole-heartedly endorses Sen John F. Kerry for President of the United States and encourages readers to vote accordingly Tuesday. Incumbent George W. Bush's term of office has been an unmitigated disaster from the botched war on terror to the administration's overly-solicitous actions on behalf of the richest Americans. A Kerry administration Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1099181693482752492004-10-30T20:08:00.000-04:002004-10-30T20:14:53.483-04:00GOP already at work on Pine Ridge rez A South Dakota delegate to the Republican Party's National Convention has been ordered off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after a tribal judge ruled that he was harassing members of a non-partisan get-out-the-vote organization by videotaping them. The U.S. Attorney for South Dakota wasted no time whatsoever in declaring Judge Marina Fast Horse's temporary Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1099181130047408422004-10-30T20:02:00.000-04:002004-10-30T20:05:30.046-04:00Say "Hello" to Mr. Happy, kids! Alan Fortney, a Republican candidate for the Arkansas legislature, has dropped his bid for elective office after his criminal record surfaced from the early 1980s. It seems Fortney likes to wag his weiner at children and has been arrested three times for indecent exposure. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1099180882330579932004-10-30T19:57:00.000-04:002004-10-30T20:01:22.330-04:00Voter interference program set by GOP If you're black or Hispanic, prepare to be assailed at the polls Tuesday by various representatives of the Republican Party. The Thuggies are going all out in their efforts to suppress voter turnout in minority precincts across the nation. Already, they've been busily at work in Ohio trying to disenfranchise black voters. It's merely a preview of what's to Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098916382992685372004-10-27T18:27:00.000-04:002004-10-27T18:33:02.993-04:00W. Va. Rethug candidate does her shoplifting in Kentucky West Virginia voters may be glad that when Dr. Diane Shafer, a Republican candidate for the state's legislature, decides to exercise her anti-social impulses, she does it in Kentucky. Shafer was arrested in a Wal-Mart in South Williamson last Friday. Shafer was equally solicitous in 1993 when she was convicted of bribery in Kentucky. Her Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098915900230172112004-10-27T18:23:00.000-04:002004-10-27T18:25:00.230-04:00And on a personal note I have been suffering with a minor, but painful, health problem in recent weeks, which means I haven't felt like posting as much as usual. I'm feeling a little better, so I should have more material coming out. Thanks to all the correspondents who have loaded me up with stories during the past few days! I'll be using them in the days to come.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098915727772222022004-10-27T18:15:00.000-04:002004-10-27T18:22:07.773-04:00Sproul me once, shame on me... Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Republican Party and the Arizona Christian Coalition, may be spending a lot of time in courtrooms around the nation next year. That's because his firm, Sproul & Associates, keeps getting caught pulling the same voter registration scam in states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Sproul's flim-flam, first uncovered in Las Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098915175369016932004-10-27T18:07:00.000-04:002004-10-27T18:12:55.370-04:00Colorado Rethug knocks himself out stealing signs You know it's going to be a good day when you get stuff like this from Stentor: Randal Wagoner of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, was wanted for questioning by local police after homeowners complained that a man had stolen Kerry/Edwards signs from their yards. Wheat Ridge's finest didn't have to look far to find their huckleberry. They discovered Wagoner Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098914747945750232004-10-27T18:01:00.000-04:002004-10-27T18:37:26.483-04:00J'accuse 2004 The most devastating indictment of George W. Bush's failed Presidency comes courtesy of this week's New Yorker. The magazine -- to which I heartily recommend that you subscribe -- broke nearly eight decades of tradition to make its first endorsement of a Presidential candidate, Senator John F. Kerry. But it's the scathing assessment of the Bush Administration's four years of Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098142277039801262004-10-18T19:27:00.000-04:002004-10-18T19:31:17.040-04:00He's on a mission from God If you don't read anything else about the 2004 campaign, please read Ron Suskind's profile of Prances on Aircraft Carriers published in this week's New York Times Magazine. You'll be shocked by how absolutely bull-goose looney George W. Bush actually is. You really want four more years of this guy? Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1098142035870842522004-10-18T19:22:00.000-04:002004-10-18T19:27:15.870-04:00More mud in O'Lieilly case The Smoking Gun has posted large excerpts of the sexual harrassment suit against Fox News jerk-off Bill O' Reilly. Lots of interesting details salted away in these pages. O'Reilly is apparently, among other things, a patron of Thai sex bars (which often have underage children on tap for Westerners trying to avoid child molestation charges back home). Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097789411765478022004-10-14T17:22:00.000-04:002004-10-14T17:33:08.350-04:00Voter registration company paid by RNC Building on yesterday's story from Stentor, it appears the voter registration company in Las Vegas that submitted Republican registrations but trashed Democratic registrations has apparently been caught doing the same scam in several states this election cycle. And the people writing the checks for this act of civic vandalism are none other than the evil Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097770960900022962004-10-14T13:19:00.000-04:002004-10-14T12:22:40.900-04:00New York GOP pol busted for beating girlfriend New York Republican Mark Hildreth, a mover and shaker in party circles, has been arrested on charges that he beat his girlfriend. He was charged Sept. 3 with third-degree assault and unlawful imprisonment. The arrest has already cost Hildreth his job as regional building manager for the state. Read more about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097770514148293372004-10-14T13:07:00.000-04:002004-10-14T12:30:13.163-04:00Senator needs teleprompter during debate Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning's Democratic opponent, Daniel Mongiardo, may not be the most observant person in the world. Otherwise, he would have raised a stink when Bunning's campaign staff reneged on the terms of their televised debate, demanding that it be taped rather than carried live and that the taping be done at Republican National Committee Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097769859475095632004-10-14T11:57:00.000-04:002004-10-14T12:04:19.476-04:00O'Reilly faces sexual harassment suit One of the biggest gasbags in the right-wing's Mighty Wurlitzer is facing a multi-million dollar civil suit for forcing one of his producers to have phone sex with him against her will. Bill O'Reilly, Fox "News"'s biggest talking head, will have to pay Andrea Mackris heap big wampum if this sucker goes to court and she wins. O'Reilly allegedly "subjected her Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097704735203026222004-10-13T17:54:00.000-04:002004-10-13T17:58:55.203-04:00Nevada voter registration fraud falls on deaf ears A company conducting voter registration drives in the Las Vegas area has a skewed way of processing new sign-ups. Voters Outreach of America has been caught forwarding only Republican registration forms and trashing those filled out by Democratic voters. This is a good story for Felonious Elephant fans to bug their local newspaper and the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097704292847263892004-10-13T17:45:00.000-04:002004-10-15T14:41:33.873-04:00New secretary of state tries Hood-winking electorate Once Jeb Bush's pump, Katherine Harris, managed to get herself elected to the U.S. Congress, you would think Jebbie would find someone, oh, I don't know...ethical(?) to take her place. No, instead he has summoned one Glenda Hood to take over as Florida Secretary of State and bring that fine institution into even greater disrepute. When the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097703818374923592004-10-13T17:32:00.000-04:002004-10-13T17:43:38.376-04:00Why are they saying these awful things about me? You can always tell when Rethug internal polling data turns to shit, because their dirty tricks machine instantly goes into overdrive. That may be what we're seeing in West Virginia, which appears to be slowly moving into the Kerry column. How has the state GOP responded? Well, up in the Panhandle, local GOP staffers are calling Dem voters and Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1097703130572095142004-10-13T17:18:00.000-04:002004-10-13T17:32:10.573-04:00Bad goings on in the Badlands Today is Stentorday, one of those occasional feast days when our most diligent correspondent provides dish on dirty Republicans everywhere. We start in South Dakota, where incumbent U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, a Democrat, is running against a goon named John Thune. Sorry, couldn't resist....anyhoo, Thune has a documented history of trying to whine his way back into Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1096674448333997182004-10-01T19:43:00.000-04:002004-10-01T19:47:28.333-04:00GOP official threatens NC Governor Former Union County, North Carolina, Union County Republican Party President John Barker was arrested this week for threatening the life of the state's Democratic (and profoundly paranoid) Governor Mike Easley. Barker allegedly threatened to harm Easley during a run-in with a state agency. He says it's all a misunderstanding. Read about it here and here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1096674158103529282004-10-01T19:39:00.000-04:002004-10-01T19:42:38.103-04:00Loud wives lose lives The New York ACLU is engaged in a pissing contest with the New York Police Department after they caught an NYPD motor scooter officer with the following slogan -- "Loud wives lose lives" -- on a sticker affixed to his helmet. The NYACLU says the cop is promoting spousal abuse. The NYPD wants to know how the NYACLU doesn't know the guy is working undercover as a psycho biker.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1096673831595398422004-10-01T19:34:00.000-04:002004-10-01T19:37:11.596-04:00Ethics panel slaps DeLay on the wrist Having concluded that completely-evil House Majority Leader Tom DeLay offered a bribe to a fellow congressman to get his vote on last year's Medicare Dismantlement Bill, The House Ethics Committee has admonished DeLay. Admonished him. No word on whether he was sent to his caucus room without his supper. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1096673515789990782004-10-01T19:18:00.000-04:002004-10-01T19:31:55.790-04:00State troopers try to squelch film The North Platte, Nebraska, Bill of Rights Committee must have been collectively stunned when two men showed up at the committee's screening of "Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties" and tried to browbeat the visiting state director of the ACLU. One of the two men identified himself as an FBI agent. The duo told Tim Butz he "he shouldn't come out to Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095804945263469142004-09-21T18:10:00.000-04:002004-09-21T18:15:45.263-04:00Arms and the Man Ever wonder about exactly who was getting rich off the Iraq War besides Halliburton? Meet Victor Bout, International Man of Mystery. Oh, alright, Bout's not exactly mysterious. He's one of the world's biggest arms and diamonds smugglers. And he's making money selling material to the U.S. Armed Forces. This guy was actually targeted by the Clinton Administration for his deals withRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095804440957363602004-09-21T18:05:00.000-04:002004-09-21T18:07:20.956-04:00Rowland still facing investigation Resigning office in disgrace hasn't taken the heat off former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland. Rowland, you'll remember, is facing possible criminal charges for more than getting by in office with a little help from his friends, who got state business in return. The feds appear eager to pin the tail on this particular Republican. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095803978199176232004-09-21T17:53:00.000-04:002004-09-21T17:59:38.200-04:00Indictments handed down on DeLay PAC A grand jury in Texas has handed down indictments against three individuals and eight corporations, charging that they made illegal campaign contributions to a PAC controlled by thuggish House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The Hammer himself escaped indictment, although the House Ethics Committee is supposedly wrapping up its investigation of charges against Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095716466864892492004-09-20T17:34:00.000-04:002004-09-20T17:41:06.866-04:00College Rethug caught kicking prostrate woman The heat of political combat. The smell of a foot encased in expensive leather. The bloom of pain when that foot is hurtled into living human flesh. Berlin, 1932? Auschwitz, 1944? No, New York City, 2004. You see, friends, a University of Pennsylvania student/thug thought he could literally get his kicks by throwing an AIDS activist -- a woman -- to Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095716009629735042004-09-20T17:31:00.000-04:002004-09-20T17:33:29.630-04:00Help America vote...not! The American Prospect has a good new article on the Republican machinations to douse Democratic turnout at the polls this fall. Read it here. By the way, does anyone other than me think the polls showing Prances on Aircraft Carriers leading the race are just plain wrong?Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095715807653790742004-09-20T17:27:00.000-04:002004-09-20T17:30:07.653-04:00Hastert's tongue runs amok once more Is Denny Hastert strung out on low-grade mescaline or what? Less than a week after Jew-baiting billionaire financier George Soros, the pudgy House Speaker announced this past weekend that Al Qaeda would prefer that John Kerry beat George Bush in the current Presidential race. Democrats, of course, begged to differ. How long until Hastert is hearing directly Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095715562109805822004-09-20T17:17:00.000-04:002004-09-20T17:26:02.110-04:00Fire-starting Congressman finally faces justice U.S. Representative Henry Brown has agreed to pay $250 as restitution for burning 20 acres in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina. Getting Brown to face justice wasn't easy, though. The incident occurred in March when a fire Brown started on his own property spilled over into the national forest. Then, Brown led the U.S. Forestry Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095373579272348282004-09-16T18:23:00.000-04:002004-09-16T18:26:19.273-04:00Voter intimidation effort ready to roll The always-excellent Jeffrey Toobin has a great piece in this week's New Yorker about Republican efforts to use "voter integrity" programs to lower African-American and other minority turn-out at the polls in November. It's worth the time to read it and do it now because I'm not sure how long the link will be good. You can find the story here. The Elephant Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095369914035359662004-09-16T17:20:00.000-04:002004-09-16T17:25:14.036-04:00Rethug AG candidate has a criminal record If you were running for the office of Vermont Attorney General, you'd preferably bring some experience to the table. Dennis Carver, the Republican candidate for Vermont AG, does exactly this, but not in the way you'd think. Carver, you see, has a conviction for eluding a police officer, in his case a 17-mile car chase, and parole violations. He says he Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095295680661957492004-09-15T20:44:00.000-04:002004-09-15T20:49:01.586-04:00Hastert slanders financier You may think that House Speaker Dennie Hastert is just a good, old boy, an ex-wrestling coach turned downhome politician. He isn't. Make no mistake about it -- Dennis Hastert is a dirtbag. Proof of his degeneracy can be found in comments he has made in public about financier George Soros. Hastert has on at least two occasions accused Soros of earning his billions by Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095295254731729302004-09-15T20:38:00.000-04:002004-09-15T20:43:00.753-04:00Coburn implicated in woman's sterilization Did Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn sterilize a woman without her consent? The U.S. Senate candidate was feeling snappish today, accusing the media of dredging up old news in order to harm his candidacy, the old news in this case being a law suit the woman filed against Coburn. Read about it here.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095200722649801402004-09-14T18:18:00.000-04:002004-09-14T18:25:22.650-04:00Allen replacement has ethical baggage of his own We recently took a look at an Ohio Republican bigwig in the Bush/Cheney campaign who was dropped from the team when he was accused of sexual harrassment by an employee. Now, Mike Allen says he won't run for re-election as Hamilton County prosecutor. The top pick to take his place is Republican Joe Deters, currently Ohio's state treasurer. What kindRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095200190195513622004-09-14T18:12:00.000-04:002004-09-14T18:16:30.196-04:00Eavesdropper sues to stop prosecution Now this takes some gall, even for a Republican -- Manuel Miranda, the Republican U.S. Senate staffer caught red-handed stealing confidential memos of Democratic committee members, is suing the Justice Department to enjoin it from pursuing any criminal investigation into his acts. That's right, sports fans -- this dickless wonder thinks he can get a federal Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095199861821323172004-09-14T18:07:00.000-04:002004-09-14T18:11:01.820-04:00Fawell keeps giving up Illinois Rethugs to prosecutors He pled guilty to public corruption charges and will do time in prison, but the former top aide to Gov. George Ryan of Illinois will continue to cooperate with prosecutors who are aiming to put Ryan in jail as well. Scott Fawell pled guilty this afternoon in a federal court of law. Ryan's top bagman, Fawell is expected to help strengthen the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095199575848946302004-09-14T18:00:00.000-04:002004-09-15T06:40:27.140-04:00Rights? Rights? You ain't got no steenkin' rights! Pity poor Nicole and Jeff Rank, who thought they had the right to attend a Bush/Cheney rally in Charleston, W. Va., wearing t-shirts with anti-Bush slogans on them. Instead, the Ranks were arrested by local police at the behest of Secret Service agents. The Ranks are striking back by filing a lawsuit against the White House and the Secret ServiceRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095021157493725162004-09-12T16:27:00.000-04:002004-09-12T16:33:50.606-04:00Okie Rethug candidate's mouth gets him in trouble In addition to being the Republican Party's chosen candidate for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn is a violence-preaching nutcase whose crazy pronouncements are becoming an embarrassment to his would-be constituents. Coburn is, naturally, an anti-abortion whacko. He is also a hypocrite, having performed abortions as a medical doctor. In Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1095020484861720122004-09-12T16:14:00.000-04:002004-09-12T18:21:13.273-04:00Televangelist tries to gag his boyfriend Hahahahaha...sorry, I couldn't resist. Anyway, if the name "Paul Crouch" sounds familiar, it's because he's the president of the largest Christian broadcasting network in the world. Crouch, however, has a little problem in the right-wing fundie morals category. You see, he has an ex-boyfriend whom he has fought tooth and nail to keep from outing him for Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1094691577205909812004-09-08T20:52:00.000-04:002004-09-08T20:59:37.206-04:00Rethug judgeship candidate interrupts Kerry speech You gotta figure John Kerry is doing something right when Republican wingnuts feel duty-bound to try and ruin Kerry events. That idea must have been pinging around unimpeded in the head of one Michael L. Russell of Foster, Kentucky, when he decided to shout at Kerry during a campaign appearance in Cincinatti today. Russell tried to taunt Kerry Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1094690328024250122004-09-08T20:34:00.000-04:002004-09-08T20:38:48.026-04:00How to succeed in government without really trying You think C+ Augustus is a slacker? He has peers in this department, you know. One of them is his Vice-President. Seems Unca Dick isn't exactly a Wundah Kid when it comes to actually doing something useful when appointed or elected to high office. Think I'm kidding? Read this devastating profile of Vice-President Fuck Yourself courtesy of the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1094690030610586852004-09-08T20:27:00.000-04:002004-09-08T20:42:29.240-04:00Just not his day Prances on Aircraft Carriers probably wasn't doing a whole lot of smirking today. A number of things have converged to make this day a less-than-happy one for him. Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin totals up the bill here. But what has to really be frosting Chimpy's balls is that the entire issue of his "service" in the National Guard has resurfaced. According to this BostonRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1094592978996666092004-09-07T17:31:00.000-04:002004-09-07T17:36:18.996-04:00Husband-beater's political career in jeopardy Georgia State Senator Renee Unterman's political career may be in the crapper since her estranged husband filed charges of domestic violence against her. The allegedly unstable Hall County Republican stands accused of whuppin' her soon-to-be-ex, threatenin' to kill his sorry ass and firin' a gun as a form of punctuating her threat. Read all the Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553910.post-1094592653448313232004-09-07T17:23:00.000-04:002004-09-07T17:30:53.446-04:00Christian Rethug bilks investors Religion and mammon just don't mix, folks. Most of us already know that, but our evangelical fundamentalist brethren seem to have a problem figuring it out. My guess is that they're overwhelmed with that whole predestinarian, worldly riches equal favor with God jive. So, it's not surprising that Jesus junkie Janssen David Willhoit took fellow Kool-Aid drinkers to Ronnoreply@blogger.com