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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/28/2005 5:35:52 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 769670

The source is SOROS, ANSWER, and the lovely Ted Kennedy.

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/28/2005 5:45:05 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ronnie "HitMan" Earl set his sights on Kay Bailey Hutchinson when she won her senate seat from a democrat.

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/28/2005 7:10:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Jay Leno joked about it last night.... Maybe it's moving into the 'collective unconscious'. :)

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/28/2005 10:33:37 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BEEF JERKEY'S Judge: Judge used 'penis pump' during murder case icWales network ^ \| September 26, 2005 \| Staff A US judge will go on trial today charged with three counts of indecent exposure after allegedly masturbating using a “penis pump” while presiding over a murder case. Witnesses claim they could hear the noise of the device coming from beneath the robes of Donald Thompson as he sat on the bench. The 58-year-old former district judge had served at Creek County Court, Oklahoma, where he was charged, for 22 years. The sex toy will be presented as evidence during the trial. The court has also permitted testimony that a second pump was seen under Judge Thompson’s bench, despite his lawyers’ attempts to get the evidence barred. Thompson faces 10 years in prison and a £11,000 (20,000 dollar) fine for each offence. If convicted he would also have to register as a sex offender when released from prison. He is accused of using the pump during two murder trials and a civil case in 2003. Jurors claim they heard what sounded like a bicycle pump or blood-pressure pump. One “heard ’a swooshing kind of air, like kind of ch, ch’ and saw Thompson making some movement with his upper body and arms“, according to documents filed by the state attorney general. Court reporter Lisa Foster told authorities she saw the bespectacled judge attach and use the device almost daily during one trial, and that the sounds could be heard on the tape she made. She claims she made notes when she saw Thompson using the pump during that trial and another first-degree murder trial in August 2003. The bizarre events were also witnessed by police officers giving evidence, the papers say. According to an affidavit, a court-ordered DNA sample confirms the fluids found in his old courtroom and office were semen. Judge C Allen McCall has not yet decided whether jurors will get to hear Ms Foster’s audio recording. Thompson claims the pump was just a joke gift from a friend. Both sides will begin quizzing a 350-member jury pool at the Oklahoma court today. The trial is expected to last about two weeks.

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/29/2005 9:24:36 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 769670

Dems Mum on Nagin-Farrakhan Summit ............................................................. News Max ^ \| Sept. 28, 2005 \| Carl Limbacher Top Democrats who blasted President Bush for bungling the Hurricane Katrina crisis declined to comment on Wednesday on Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan's claim that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gave him key evidence suggesting his city's levees may have been blown up. NewsMax called the offices of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Barack Obama and Rep. Charlie Rangel, as well as ex-President Clinton's Harlem office, and followed up with emails detailing Farrakhan's claims about his Nagin sit-down. Not a single Democrat was willing to say whether it was appropriate for Nagin to huddle with the racially polarizing black leader, let alone feed him info that stoked Farrakhan's levee conspiracy theory. On Friday, Farrakhan told a rally for his upcoming Millions More March: "We flew to Dallas, Texas - members of the Millions More Movement - where we met with Mayor Nagin . . . Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee." Farrakhan cautioned: "He didn't say there was a bomb. He just said there was a crater," then added: "I say they blew it [up]." A full five days after Farrakhan cited Nagin as his source for news that not all the levee damage looked natural, Nagin himself has had nothing to say about the levee plot theory - a silence that some see as a tacit endorsement. Two weeks ago Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said that Farrakhan's theory was gaining currency in Nagin's city. "I was stunned in New Orleans at how many black New Orleanians would tell me with real conviction that somehow the levee breaks had been engineered," Robinson told NBC's "Meet the Press." "These are not wild-eyed people," Robinson insisted. "These are reasonable, sober people who really believe that."

To: Bill who wrote (704624)	9/29/2005 5:41:58 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS By JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILE Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe. Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster. His worried wife yelled at him: "Stop, George." Following the shocking incident, disclosed here for the first time, Laura privately warned her husband against "falling off the wagon" and vowed to travel with him more often so that she can keep an eye on Dubya, the sources add. "When the levees broke in New Orleans, it apparently made him reach for a shot," said one insider. "He poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and shouted: "Stop George!" "Laura gave him an ultimatum before, 'It's Jim Beam or me.' She doesn't want to replay that nightmare — especially now when it's such tough going for her husband." Bush is under the worst pressure of his two terms in office and his popularity is near an all-time low. The handling of the Katrina crisis and troop losses in Iraq have fueled public discontent and pushed Bush back to drink. A Washington source said: "The sad fact is that he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught him — but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the capital. He's been in a pressure cooker for months. "The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has deeply affected him. He takes every soldier's life personally. It has left him emotionally drained. The result is he's taking drinks here and there, likely in private, to cope. "And now with the worst domestic crisis in his administration over Katrina, you pray his drinking doesn't go out of control." Another source said: "I'm only surprised to hear that he hadn't taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was at his wit's end. I've known him for years. He's been a good ol' Texas boy forever. George had a drinking problem for years that most professionals would say needed therapy. He doesn't believe in it [therapy], he never got it. He drank his way through his youth, through college and well into his thirties. Everyone's drinking around him." Another source said: "A family member told me they fear George is 'falling apart.' The First Lady has been assigned the job of gatekeeper." Bush's history of drinking dates back to his youth. Speaking of his time as a young man in the National Guard, he has said: "One thing I remember, and I'm most proud of, is my drinking and partying. Those were the days my friends. Those were the good old days!" Age 26 in 1972, he reportedly rounded off a night's boozing with his 16-year-old brother Marvin by challenging his father to a fight. On November 1, 2000, on the eve of his first presidential election, Bush acknowledged that in 1976 he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near his parents' home in Maine. Age 30 at the time, Bush pleaded guilty and paid a $150 fine. His driving privileges were temporarily suspended in Maine. "I'm not proud of that," he said. "I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night. I learned my lesson." In another interview around that time, he said: "Well, I don't think I had an addiction. You know it's hard for me to say. I've had friends who were, you know, very addicted... and they required hitting bottom (to start) going to AA. I don't think that was my case." During his 2000 presidential campaign, there were also persistent questions about past cocaine use. Eventually Bush denied using cocaine after 1992, then quickly extended the cocaine-free period back to 1974, when he was 28. Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist and author of Bush On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President, told The National Enquirer: "I do think that Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great. "I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening." Published on: 09/21/2005