Comments on: If It Quacks Like A Duck… http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:49:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JTMinIA http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428544 JTMinIA Tue, 06 May 2008 04:29:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428544 <p>Oh, the irony: “If it wasn’t for Condon’s writing skills being several notches above Brodkorb’s (that is to say that Condon actually writes as if he made it alive out of his seventh-grade English class)….”</p> <p>Out of curiosity, in what grade does your school district teach the subjunctive tense? I agree that it’s probably eighth or later.</p> Oh, the irony: “If it wasn’t for Condon’s writing skills being several notches above Brodkorb’s (that is to say that Condon actually writes as if he made it alive out of his seventh-grade English class)….”

Out of curiosity, in what grade does your school district teach the subjunctive tense? I agree that it’s probably eighth or later.

]]> By: nonplussed http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428517 nonplussed Tue, 06 May 2008 04:19:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428517 <p>Since she killed herself, I would certainly expect a measure of retribution, wouldn’t you? Given that she believe s she has been hounded to her death? The thing that bothers me is that hanging is not a typically a female modality of suicide. Generally a more peaceful method is preferred, pills, something w/o the violence of hanging.</p> Since she killed herself, I would certainly expect a measure of retribution, wouldn’t you? Given that she believe s she has been hounded to her death? The thing that bothers me is that hanging is not a typically a female modality of suicide. Generally a more peaceful method is preferred, pills, something w/o the violence of hanging.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428494 cinnamonape Tue, 06 May 2008 04:10:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428494 <p>Right! If she felt she was being crucified then one would expect a very major “take down” of all that put her through it. What are they gonna do? Sue her? Unless thelist emerges in the next few days this makes absolutely no sense. </p> <p>And her claiming that she’d come out “alone”. C’mon…she would still be a smart, and somewhat notorious, woman. She’d find a partner who’d be fine with that, and she’d switch fields. What she was doing wasn’t much different than the editors of the NY Times, Wash Po and major networks are doing…managing a bunch of prostitutes, denying that they are, and looking away when convenient.</p> Right! If she felt she was being crucified then one would expect a very major “take down” of all that put her through it. What are they gonna do? Sue her? Unless thelist emerges in the next few days this makes absolutely no sense.

And her claiming that she’d come out “alone”. C’mon…she would still be a smart, and somewhat notorious, woman. She’d find a partner who’d be fine with that, and she’d switch fields. What she was doing wasn’t much different than the editors of the NY Times, Wash Po and major networks are doing…managing a bunch of prostitutes, denying that they are, and looking away when convenient.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428472 cinnamonape Tue, 06 May 2008 04:03:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428472 <blockquote><p>You could have a John McCain-divorce-his-1st-wife-for-trophy-wife doll. A Gov. Gibbons-divorce-his-wife-for-no-reason doll(filed in Nevada).</p> <p>You mean Gov. Jim “I love my too much to be pawing cocktail waitresses” Gibbons?</p></blockquote> <p>I guess the pawing wasn’t balanced by the illegal consulting contracts she got through “Govvie” that the FBI is looking into. That’s one strong gal, Dawn Gibbons, she tossed Jimmy out of the Governor’s mansion on his rear and made him stay in a fancy hotel outside of the Capitol. This actually threatened his gubernatorial position, as Nevada has some weird law REQUIRING the Gov. reside in the Capitol. But Jimmy fought back, and not only got the Republicans in the Legislayure to revoke the law, and then filed for divorce to evict his wife from the Mansion she was holed up in! The writers for the Simpson’s should write an episode based on this!</p>

You could have a John McCain-divorce-his-1st-wife-for-trophy-wife doll. A Gov. Gibbons-divorce-his-wife-for-no-reason doll(filed in Nevada).

You mean Gov. Jim “I love my too much to be pawing cocktail waitresses” Gibbons?

I guess the pawing wasn’t balanced by the illegal consulting contracts she got through “Govvie” that the FBI is looking into. That’s one strong gal, Dawn Gibbons, she tossed Jimmy out of the Governor’s mansion on his rear and made him stay in a fancy hotel outside of the Capitol. This actually threatened his gubernatorial position, as Nevada has some weird law REQUIRING the Gov. reside in the Capitol. But Jimmy fought back, and not only got the Republicans in the Legislayure to revoke the law, and then filed for divorce to evict his wife from the Mansion she was holed up in! The writers for the Simpson’s should write an episode based on this!

]]> By: nonplussed http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428319 nonplussed Tue, 06 May 2008 03:07:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428319 <p>I hated to see that happen. The poor thing, American justice-she sure as hell never did anything that the (majority of the) public doesn’t support or at least mot care about. Thank God for the Puritans!!! </p> <p>I can sure understand her point about prison, too. Go to jail for a night, so will you! The entire process is designed for just such a purpose, to dehumanize, degrade, and demoralize the incarnated individual. They will strip a person of all vestiges of dignity, take your shoes. And why else would they rush a person to an ER 100 miles away to be resuscitated from his attempted suicide, only to bring him back and execute him by fatal injection that very evening? Texas, of course).</p> I hated to see that happen. The poor thing, American justice-she sure as hell never did anything that the (majority of the) public doesn’t support or at least mot care about. Thank God for the Puritans!!!

I can sure understand her point about prison, too. Go to jail for a night, so will you! The entire process is designed for just such a purpose, to dehumanize, degrade, and demoralize the incarnated individual. They will strip a person of all vestiges of dignity, take your shoes. And why else would they rush a person to an ER 100 miles away to be resuscitated from his attempted suicide, only to bring him back and execute him by fatal injection that very evening? Texas, of course).

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428308 Loo Hoo. Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428308 <p>OK. Didn’t get to follow the thread. Just jumped in!</p> OK. Didn’t get to follow the thread. Just jumped in!

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428307 LS Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428307 <p>That’s what I’m talkin’ about.</p> That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428306 Loo Hoo. Tue, 06 May 2008 02:58:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428306 <p>Vitter, at the very least, needs to eat it. His guilty companions (and I hope like hell that Flynt has the goods) all need to lose their seats.</p> <p>This is absolutely wrong that the woman supplying (as raw story says) the goods is the only one held accountable.)</p> Vitter, at the very least, needs to eat it. His guilty companions (and I hope like hell that Flynt has the goods) all need to lose their seats.

This is absolutely wrong that the woman supplying (as raw story says) the goods is the only one held accountable.)

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428304 LS Tue, 06 May 2008 02:57:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428304 <p>Where is the supposed McBush lobbiest girlfriend?</p> Where is the supposed McBush lobbiest girlfriend?

]]> By: EvilDrPuma http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428302 EvilDrPuma Tue, 06 May 2008 02:55:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-2/#comment-1428302 <p>IOKIYARWH. (It’s okay if you’re a Republican wearing Huggies.)</p> IOKIYARWH. (It’s okay if you’re a Republican wearing Huggies.)

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