AMERICAblog: On the DC Madam case, "this whole thing could have been ripped right out of an Edith Wharton novel"
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
White, straight, Protestant, rich frat brats will rule until there is blood running the streets with revolution. This nation votes more for "American Idol" than it does in national elections. QED. Whores will always end up badly because these men treat women as nothing more than life support systems for vaginas.
Webster
· 1 year ago
I don't understand what it is about this country that makes us persist in being die-hard Puritan sexphobic misogynists. That aside, why is someone like Vitter still in office? Why is Larry Craig going to join the ranks of paid retired hypocrites like Mark Foley? I think we need to bring back the stockade, as long as we're going to be Puritans forever, and have Vitter/Foley/etc. spend their days with their hands and heads in a yoke in the public square and allow the populace to throw rotten vegetables at them.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Too bad that women themselves judge their "liberation" by how much money they make. Women are no more liberated today than they were 40 years ago, except that a couple of discrimination laws were passed which employers still find a way around. Women still marry sexist pigs; if there's no division of home labor, nothing gets done or women wind up trying to achieve the impossible "superwoman" label, women put up with job harassment all the time, and fucking your way to the top is still seen as a way to "get ahead" (no pun intended). I worked for 50 years and saw it all.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
House of Mirth, yes.
JD234
· 1 year ago
I'm a normal, professional adult, not prone to conspiracy theories. But can anyone actually believe that this woman really killed herself? Almost no one commits suicide who doesn't have a long history of severe depression, and it very rarely occurs even with people who are facing decades-long prison sentences (unless they happen to have incriminating information about hundreds of powerful men, it seems). How can all the media blithely grant this incredibly implausible suicide story? Are there details I'm missing?
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
The Republicscum have always used the law to protect their own and to punish those who oppose them. Think Libby v. Siegleman. The party of compassion has fostered the belief that those who are criminals are totally without rights or deserving of the least sympathy. Think Spitzer. Unless of course, you are Republican. Think Vitter, Craig, Libby, Foley and so many others. There is an inherent message: Serve us and you will be one of the elite, beyond the law.
Remember this case and what it says about our society and how much values have changed when it comes to racism. Yes, race no longer counts. That is why we no longer need affirmative action in this country. That is why we see people interviewed in Kentucky who make it clear that they would never vote for a black candidate.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
OT
Older and "Wiser
Read your comments in the open thread about RawStory. Thanks, it explains a lot about the way things are being posted there.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
aquarius2, Details, please...
ChicagoKid
· 1 year ago
OT: Seems that McInsane did indeed call his wife a "c*nt." He was asked point blank. And instead of denying ever calling her that or using such language, he sidesteps the question.
Makes me wonder how much our country has progressed since the 19th Century.
I'm reading a new book about lawyer and bootlegging king George Remus by my friend Will Cook...the Harding era reads like Dubya's. Aside from the 29th President's taste for underage female flesh, illegal booze and the Tea Pot Dome corruption, Team Harding seems to have sported a bisexual Attorney General with a live in boyfriend and bagman who was a close personal friend of Florence Harding...Oh, and the boyfriend mysteriously (wink, wink) killed himself at a very opportune moment and without spending the night at Carrie Fisher's (kidding). The male flesh cast-offs of DC's powerful still likely haunt and panhandle on the fringe of DuPont Circle... I'll never forget an elevator ride with a very powerful member of the DC establishment many years ago when I was a young man. This fellow asked where I grew up. I always answered this question by naming a larger nearby city, a city with a reputation for unsavory delights through the early and mid 20th century. Once I announced this city, the powerful establishment elder (whom I'd not met before) exclaimed, licked his chops and said, "Some mighty fine prostitutes live in that city!" I replied, "Yes, sir."
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
aquarius, I'm stymied! Could you be more specific?
Meanwhile, that POS Chimp is giving a lecture to the good people of St. Louis, lying like a rug...about "why oil is scarce" and expensive, blaming Congress for not opening ANWR and the lack of refineries, as well. Doesn't lmention that oil speculators (his base) are driving up the price of oil futures, either.
Now he's holding forth on mortgages...it's a horrible thing to listen to.
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
This was her statement, quoting the associated press : "I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. "Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."
--DC MADAM
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
OT
O and W
OOps!, no wonder you are stymied, you were talking about Think Progress. Sorry, not enough coffee this morning.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Many have noticed the pattern to your generic DC sex scandal...A quick hubbub and a quicker slide into the memory hole... Anyone remember Mary Meyer or Walter Jenkins from the 60s? Has anyone ever read of the Hume/Paxon affair or has anyone ever investigated related shenanigans surrounding Newt's in-house revolution attempt? It's not like Paxon wife Susan Molinari is a stranger to media types...
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Susan Molinari.
My God I haven't thought of that abomination in many years.
GrahamCrackerDC
· 1 year ago
Interesting observations -- lots of liberal bloggers are wondering if Palfrey was killed to keep her quiet about GOP clients of her prostitution service . . . and lots of conservative bloggers are suggesting that she was killed to keep her quiet about DEM clients.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
How about, she was killed to keep her quiet about ALL clients?
GrahamCrackerDC
· 1 year ago
"How about, she was killed to keep her quiet about ALL clients?"
I like that -- and it fits the reality that Dems and GOP actually work together to remain in power.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
aquarius, oh yeah, the fact that John Podesta was on B. Clinton's staff...and a stone Clintonite...as well as being on the board of WVWV, the robocalls--say, you suppose HE is Lamont Williams? : )
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Give the gentleman a Mark Foley blackberry...Or, a hot uniform session with Bulldog.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Busboy
O&W informed us that the John Podesta of Think Progress was a Clinton advisor. I, uh, for some damn reason thought it was RawStroy. Back to the coffee pot for me.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Finally, Means drew attention to the astonishing mortality among those who had been in on the secrets of the gang. Not only had Smith dropped out of the picture, but also John T. King (who had received the Merton bonds), C. F. Hately (a Department of justice agent), C. F. Cramer (attorney for the Veterans' Bureau), Thurston (the Boston lawyer who represented many clients before the Alien Property Custodian), T. B. Felder (attorney for the Harding group), President Harding, Mrs. Harding, and General Sawyer. They had all died—most of them suddenly—within a few years of the end of the Harding Administration.
The Mexican poetess and scientist Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz (1651-1695) said it best with this tongue-twisting couplet: "Aunque la que peca paga El que paga peca." [Although she who sins pays He who pays sins.] Sor Juana was silenced by the bishop of Mexico City for her impudence and died shortly afterwards. Modern Mexico recognizes her early work on behalf of women's rights and memorializes her on the 1000 peso bill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana
Hawk
· 1 year ago
"I found a post about the ABC News report last year that Palfrey’s list consisted of “…thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers,” Ross said. “And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list.” Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, “include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers.”
But, we can't say Conspiricy, we can't say that somehow, the ones we know are playing on the Dark Side, are n~e~v~e~r the ones to die.
I've got nothing.
jr
· 1 year ago
"David Vitter is more moral than Eliot Spitzer"-cable news
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Kind of a double standard when Spitzer is charged with doing a hooker, hooker goes free, here madam is charged and clients go free. I hope the hell Larry Flint got the list of all the people she arranged to get laid. it will make great reading in elections to come.
missmarple
· 1 year ago
When Vitter returned to Congress after his "Timeout" - he was actually given a standing ovation. Here's a guy with a diaper fetish, who pays prostitutes to clean him up and he's applauded by his buddies in Congress. We live in a very strange World if this is judged as acceptable.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Does this sound right to you? is this what you do, first thing when you wake up? and then automatically call 911 because a tricycle is outside your shed?? come on folks, cant you see this is a set up.... this whole thing smells like month old fish. i hope someone made a copy of those names. i bet someone did....i hope that person is in hiding. who else had access to those names?? will there be any future "suicides"?? i dont think this will be over anytime soon.
------------------------------------------------------------- "Palfrey's 76-year-old mother, Blanche, found her daughter's body in a shed to the side of her home, according to police. Palfrey had hung herself with nylon rope from a beam in the shed's ceiling, the police said.
Blanche had looked in the shed after awaking from a nap to discover outside her house a tricycle she normally stored there, according to police. She called 911.
Hand-written notes were found near Palfrey's body which "describes the victim's intention to take her life," the police statement read."
All Comments
Remember this case and what it says about our society and how much values have changed when it comes to racism. Yes, race no longer counts. That is why we no longer need affirmative action in this country. That is why we see people interviewed in Kentucky who make it clear that they would never vote for a black candidate.
Older and "Wiser
Read your comments in the open thread about RawStory. Thanks, it explains a lot about the way things are being posted there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOl4iT46Eec
I'm reading a new book about lawyer and bootlegging king George Remus by my friend Will Cook...the Harding era reads like Dubya's.
Aside from the 29th President's taste for underage female flesh, illegal booze and the Tea Pot Dome corruption, Team Harding seems to have sported a bisexual Attorney General with a live in boyfriend and bagman who was a close personal friend of Florence Harding...Oh, and the boyfriend mysteriously (wink, wink) killed himself at a very opportune moment and without spending the night at Carrie Fisher's (kidding).
The male flesh cast-offs of DC's powerful still likely haunt and panhandle on the fringe of DuPont Circle...
I'll never forget an elevator ride with a very powerful member of the DC establishment many years ago when I was a young man. This fellow asked where I grew up. I always answered this question by naming a larger nearby city, a city with a reputation for unsavory delights through the early and mid 20th century. Once I announced this city, the powerful establishment elder (whom I'd not met before) exclaimed, licked his chops and said, "Some mighty fine prostitutes live in that city!" I replied, "Yes, sir."
Meanwhile, that POS Chimp is giving a lecture to the good people of St. Louis, lying like a rug...about "why oil is scarce" and expensive, blaming Congress for not opening ANWR and the lack of refineries, as well. Doesn't lmention that oil speculators (his base) are driving up the price of oil futures, either.
Now he's holding forth on mortgages...it's a horrible thing to listen to.
"I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. "Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."
--DC MADAM
O and W
OOps!, no wonder you are stymied, you were talking about Think Progress. Sorry, not enough coffee this morning.
Anyone remember Mary Meyer or Walter Jenkins from the 60s?
Has anyone ever read of the Hume/Paxon affair or has anyone ever investigated related shenanigans surrounding Newt's in-house revolution attempt? It's not like Paxon wife Susan Molinari is a stranger to media types...
My God I haven't thought of that abomination in many years.
I like that -- and it fits the reality that Dems and GOP actually work together to remain in power.
O&W informed us that the John Podesta of Think Progress was a Clinton advisor. I, uh, for some damn reason thought it was RawStroy. Back to the coffee pot for me.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ALLEN/ch6.html
"Aunque la que peca paga
El que paga peca."
[Although she who sins pays
He who pays sins.]
Sor Juana was silenced by the bishop of Mexico City for her impudence and died shortly afterwards. Modern Mexico recognizes her early work on behalf of women's rights and memorializes her on the 1000 peso bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana
But, we can't say Conspiricy, we can't say that somehow, the ones we know are playing on the Dark Side, are n~e~v~e~r the ones to die.
I've got nothing.
-------------------------------------------------------------
"Palfrey's 76-year-old mother, Blanche, found her daughter's body in a shed to the side of her home, according to police. Palfrey had hung herself with nylon rope from a beam in the shed's ceiling, the police said.
Blanche had looked in the shed after awaking from a nap to discover outside her house a tricycle she normally stored there, according to police. She called 911.
Hand-written notes were found near Palfrey's body which "describes the victim's intention to take her life," the police statement read."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743