Local has the seeds for the high school tournaments tomorrow.
Didn't even go to the store today, and I will NOT buy a New York Times no matter what.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!
"Arizona congressman charged with extortion in federal land swap"
"Federal authorities announced corruption charges yesterday accusing Representative Rick Renzi of engineering a swap of federally owned mining land to benefit himself and a former business partner and stealing from his insurance company's clients.
A lengthy federal investigation that had put the three-term Republican congressman under a cloud for more than a year culminated in a 26-page indictment issued Thursday against him and two other men....
The indictment's 35 counts include charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, insurance fraud, and extortion. Most of the charges allege Renzi, 49, used his office to promote a land swap to collect on a debt owed by James W. Sandlin of Sherman, Texas, a former Renzi associate....
Renzi is one of 24 cochairmen for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in Arizona....
Gee, that's going to be tough to explain, 'eh, Mr. Clean?
Authorities accuse Renzi of using his position as a member of the Natural Resources Committee to push land deals for Sandlin. Renzi wanted Sandlin to make money so the congressman could be paid for an earlier land deal they made together, the indictment said.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington applauded the Justice Department for holding Renzi "accountable given that his House colleagues refused to do so."Just ONE MORE REASON to view this DEMOCRAPIC-CONTROLLLED Congress as a FAILURE!!!!
"Backer disputes McCain remarks"
"Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Senator John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.
Ooooops!!
So the STRAIGHT-TALKER is really a BULLSHITTER, huh?
Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson's quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.
Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, may have attended the meeting in McCain's office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson said in an interview yesterday. "The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."
Uh-oh!!!!
Was she good, John?
The recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided by the McCain campaign about the two letters at the center of a controversy about the senator's ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay.
The McCain campaign said Thursday that the senator had not met with Paxson or Iseman on the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde and Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC regarding this proceeding," the campaign said in a statement.
But Paxson said yesterday, "I remember going there to meet with him." He recalled that he told McCain: "You're head of the Commerce Committee. The FCC is not doing its job. I would love for you to write a letter."
McCain lawyer Robert Bennett played down the contradiction between the campaign's written answer and Paxson's recollection.
Pfffffffttt!
"We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Paxson]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?" Bennett said. "McCain has never denied that Paxson asked for assistance from his office. It doesn't seem relevant whether the request got to him through Paxson or the staff."
Look at that fat slime Bennett back-pedaling about his lying client!
Unbelievable what some people will do for $$$$.
The Paxson acquisition, coming as McCain made his first run for the presidency, has posed a persistent problem for the senator. The deal raised embarrassing questions about his dealings with lobbyists at a time when he had assumed the role of an ethics champion.
The two letters he wrote to the FCC in 1999 while he was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee produced a rash of criticism and letter from the then-FCC chairman, who called McCain's intervention "highly unusual." McCain had repeatedly used Paxson's corporate jet for his campaign and accepted campaign contributions from the broadcaster and his law firm.
In a deposition in 2002, McCain acknowledged talking to Paxson about the Pittsburgh sale. Asked what Paxson said in the conversation, McCain said that Paxson "had applied to purchase this station and that he wanted to purchase it. And that there had been a numerous year delay with the FCC reaching a decision. And he wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business."
"I said I would be glad to write a letter asking them to act," McCain testified, recounting the conversation with Paxson. "But I cannot write a letter asking them to approve or deny, because then that would be an interference in their activities."
Iseman's connections to McCain have come into question this week after a longtime associate of McCain's said that he had asked Iseman to distance herself from McCain and his 2000 presidential campaign to protect the candidate's reputation for independence from special interests."Yeah, after the New York Times sat on a story they had back in December!!!!
The John McCain/New York Times' Love Affair
But in the MSM game of FOOLEYS, they are McCain's "enemy."
Pffffffffftttt!!!!
"White House supports McCain, raps Times"
Oh, yeah, that will help McCain.
With friends like the White House, who needs the New York Times?
And with "enemies" like Bush and McCain, who needs the New York Times?
"The White House sided with Senator John McCain and accused The
Really?
After holding the illegal eavesdropping story for over a year, the Pakistani nuclear story for three and now this since December, how can those scum at the White House claim this?
What a bunch of scum-fuck FOOLEYS!
The fucking Republicans should be sending the New York Times a Thank You Card!
Or maybe this was the purpose anyway, huh?
The newspaper published a report Thursday suggesting that McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, had an improper relationship with a female lobbyist. McCain said Thursday that the report was not true and told reporters yesterday that he would not answer more questions about it.
"I think a lot of people here in this building, with experience in a couple campaigns, have grown accustomed to the fact that during the course of the campaign, seemingly on maybe a monthly basis leading up to the convention and maybe a weekly basis after that, The New York Times does try to drop a bombshell on the Republican nominee," Scott Stanzel, White House deputy press secretary, said at a briefing.
How ungrateful after they spill all your lies on their news pages, White House shitter!
The Times is standing by the story. In response to reader questions, Times Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote yesterday that he was "surprised by the volume of the reaction."
(Author of blog shaking his head)
So when you gonna GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS, Times?
I mean, WTF?!
