tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post3828048643175977692..comments2023-10-23T14:15:29.331-07:00Comments on Shallow Cogitations: Cathy McMorris Rodgers - HypocriteHank Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243840232233423724noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-86513344019434452362013-10-07T12:13:56.805-07:002013-10-07T12:13:56.805-07:00Speaking of hypocrisy, will Democrats condemn Obam...Speaking of hypocrisy, will Democrats condemn Obama's rendition program? <br /><br />Or is it just bad when Bush did it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-66789522888597375962013-10-07T11:50:58.004-07:002013-10-07T11:50:58.004-07:00A toddler who watches her mother gunned down, and ...A toddler who watches her mother gunned down, and is then seized by her mother's killers, is not "uninjured," whether or not the killing proves justified.<br /><br />The Obama administration needs to release the tapes.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-42838734223010072372013-10-07T11:31:59.509-07:002013-10-07T11:31:59.509-07:00Typical anonymous "sources" story, this ...Typical anonymous "sources" story, this one from ABC. These facts should be verifiable on the record, why didn't ABC verify them?<br /><br /><i>Sources told ABC News that Connecticut police had twice in 2012 been called by Miriam Carey's boyfriend, who reported the woman was delusional, acting irrationally and putting her infant daughter in danger.<br /><br />Carey, 34, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., was killed by police Thursday after trying to ram a White House gate and leading cops on a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue with her 1-year-old daughter in the car. The toddler was uninjured and placed in police custody.<br /><br />According to sources Carey believed she was the "prophet of Stamford" and was capable of communicating with Obama.</i><br /><br />Carey's family admits post partun depression, but denies delusion. See her sister's interview on NBC.<br /><br /><i>Valarie Carey said officials' descriptions of her sister are "not the Miriam we knew."<br /><br />"She was not walking around delusional, which is what we really want the public to understand," she said.</i> Huffpo, NBC<br /><br />Also, per earlier reports, Carey was shot by Capitol Police AND secret service (not just "police.") Who shot her is a very important legal distinction. Especially if military were present.Anon, anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-27757370968545045052013-10-07T10:52:14.302-07:002013-10-07T10:52:14.302-07:00If an unarmed woman with a child rammed my front g...If an unarmed woman with a child rammed my front gate (if I had one), and my heavily armed guards (if I had any) chased her down and killed her, I would be suprised if the police didn't at least ask if I knew her, and promptly. Even if there was evidence of psychiatric treatment.<br /><br />Different strokesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-32521252547393946602013-10-07T10:16:20.869-07:002013-10-07T10:16:20.869-07:00I doubt any real connection between Carey and Obam...I doubt any real connection between Carey and Obama. But, has the press even asked the President if he knew this woman? <br /><br />A question would be pretty much standard, particularly given the circumstances: intrusion into the White House grounds, a death, and the police spreading the story that the woman was delusional and thought she had an appointment with the President, or that he was stalking her.<br /><br />Normal police procedure would be to test the story with all parties, even if unlikely. Has the media asked the police if they've talked to Obama? <br /><br />Also, do we know the evidentiary source of the communication/meeting/stalking stories? Also, why are the cops putting those stories out to the public at this stage of the investigation? Carey's family is quite rightly angry at the sloppy handling of the investigation.<br /><br />And remember, it seemed EXTREMELY unlikely that Clinton was playing sex games with an intern in the oval office using a cigar while talking on the phone to a congressman. Also, the Clinton white house originally portrayed Lewinsky how? A nut, and a slut.<br /><br />Still the one aspect of the story as told by the media that I do find unlikely is that the police shooting isn't on video. If nothing else, the press should be pursuing that claim. Seriously, the most camera-heavy block of real estate on the entire planet, and she was killed near a security booth. <br /><br />C'mon media. Obama is your darling, but at least put in a minimum effort.Deep Bloatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-84623070429989166712013-10-07T09:12:53.513-07:002013-10-07T09:12:53.513-07:00Well, the family of Carey (not Casey) is asking so...Well, the family of Carey (not Casey) is asking some good pointed questions, though getting no answers.<br /><br />I disagree there was silence. Lots of cheering from Democrats and Republicans, until they saw how ugly that looked on camera.<br /><br />Still, not a word of sympathy to her family.<br /><br />After 13 years of Bush-Obama, what have we become?<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-7258524876142655542013-10-07T08:43:16.337-07:002013-10-07T08:43:16.337-07:00It's hypocritical that Democrats aren't as...It's hypocritical that Democrats aren't asking questions about the muder of Miriam Casey. So, guns are bad--except when misused by federal employees with badge? So our powerful President is a victim of racism and we need to speak up about it, but it's ok for his secret service to use excessive force on a working class (and black) woman? Why the silence?<br /><br />Reminds me of the shameful, silent Spokane city council press conference after the murder of Otto Zehm. No questions please, we're Democrats.<br /><br />With the Casey murder, and federal employees succesfully elbowing their way to the front of the refunding line, there seems to be plenty of hypocrisy to go around.Two liter bottlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-19784772034700405082013-10-05T09:09:59.228-07:002013-10-05T09:09:59.228-07:00http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/cong...http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/congress-likely-to-give-federal-workers-their-back-pay-at-end-of-shutdown-now-in-day-5/2013/10/05/1e6fa11e-2d96-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html?tid=HP_lede<br /><br />Great for the feds. But what about Americans?Um...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980421295592818922.post-6604349514876405712013-10-05T08:52:19.387-07:002013-10-05T08:52:19.387-07:00Bipartisan bills are advancing in both houses to p...Bipartisan bills are advancing in both houses to pay federal employees. There was even talk about a Sunday session. There is far more concern for federal employees to get paid--even when they are not working--than for any other victims of the shutdown, including headstart and sick children.<br /><br />Democrats say they won't negotiate a piecemeal resolution to the impasse. Oh, except for federal employees. Sorry cancer kids!<br /><br />We taxpayers get only unemployment, or nothing, when laid off or we strike. We certainly don't get an act of Congress, or sympathy from federal workers. Our wages and benefits have stagnated compared to federal employees for decades.<br /><br />Symbolically, feds summarily executed an unarmed, troubled working class mother in front of her baby daughter's eyes, in front of the Capitol, earning instant praise from both parties. Get off my lawn, said the President. Or else.<br /><br />So now, we are going to pay federal workers not to work. OK fine. But what are federal workers going to do for American workers in return? Go back to your fortress offices and illegal peepholes, your fancy bars and gated "communities" and laugh at Americans for being chumps?<br /><br />How bout we just pay federal employees the minimum wage instead, with full backpay when the shutdown ends?<br /><br />Bet we'd get Congressional action for a higher federal minimum wage, now.Commom Centsnoreply@blogger.com