Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Watch Out For Teflon Tim 20
With the Sanford bit going down in South Carolina, things are looking real good for Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. Too good, in fact. Here's a short primer on "Teflon" Tim. He makes "Slick Willie" look like an amateur.
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As this is fantastically good news for "Teflon" Tim Pawlenty (current governor of Minnesota). Which is terrible news for anyone who knows anything about government. Everything that the GOP loved about Stanford is present in an oh-so-beautiful-on-camera package in Mr. Pawlenty, as well as one trait that they have yearned for so much:
Nothing sticks to Pawlenty.
Who was governor when the interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River? Pawlenty
Who was governor over multiple state government shut-downs due to budgetary troubles? Pawlenty
Who was governor when the University system in Minnesota had to force multiple consecutive years of annual double-digit percentage tuition increases, just to keep the lights on? Pawlenty
Who was governor when the state constitution was crapped all over by a cigarette tax that contributed to the general fund (as a "fee", no less) to try to work out the massive budget shortfall? Pawlenty
Which governor ran for election on the sole campaign promise of "I won't raise your taxes", rather than actually discussing issues? Pawlenty
Which governor ran on just one promise, dodging all other issues, and then used budgetary voodoo and massive cuts to education to keep that promise? Pawlenty
Which governor came closer to a VP endorsement than any other MN governor in many, many, terms? Pawlenty
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Just wait and see, you'll be seeing a lot more of him in the next couple years. It wouldn't surprise me to see Palin hitched to him as VP.
And if you think Bush Jr. did a fine job of destroying the economy; just look at what has happened to MN. MN didn't have a brain drain problem before; but look what happens when you start cutting education!
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As this is fantastically good news for "Teflon" Tim Pawlenty (current governor of Minnesota). Which is terrible news for anyone who knows anything about government. Everything that the GOP loved about Stanford is present in an oh-so-beautiful-on-camera package in Mr. Pawlenty, as well as one trait that they have yearned for so much:
Nothing sticks to Pawlenty.
Who was governor when the interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River? Pawlenty
Who was governor over multiple state government shut-downs due to budgetary troubles? Pawlenty
Who was governor when the University system in Minnesota had to force multiple consecutive years of annual double-digit percentage tuition increases, just to keep the lights on? Pawlenty
Who was governor when the state constitution was crapped all over by a cigarette tax that contributed to the general fund (as a "fee", no less) to try to work out the massive budget shortfall? Pawlenty
Which governor ran for election on the sole campaign promise of "I won't raise your taxes", rather than actually discussing issues? Pawlenty
Which governor ran on just one promise, dodging all other issues, and then used budgetary voodoo and massive cuts to education to keep that promise? Pawlenty
Which governor came closer to a VP endorsement than any other MN governor in many, many, terms? Pawlenty
Just wait and see, you'll be seeing a lot more of him in the next couple years. It wouldn't surprise me to see Palin hitched to him as VP.
And if you think Bush Jr. did a fine job of destroying the economy; just look at what has happened to MN. MN didn't have a brain drain problem before; but look what happens when you start cutting education!
Nu uh (Score:1)
Watch out for Jeb. As far as politicians go, he still doesn't smell too bad despite his daughter's shenanigans. And he and Palin might be able to play the sympathy card pretty well. Despite what the dopey media polls will tell you, the Bush name can easily win votes where it counts, in the voting booth.
Your Gov has nothing on ours! (Score:3, Insightful)
Nobody even voted for Illinois' Governor. He was Lt. Governor when Rod Blagojevich [wikipedia.org] was impeached and removed from office. The Governor before Blagojevich is in federal prison right now [wikipedia.org] for corruption. When Ryan was Illinois Secretary of State, a family with small children all died in a horrible, firey highway wreck caused by a tractor trailer driver who'd gotten his CDL through bribery. We're still cleaning up the mess [slashdot.org] those two clowns left, and I'm not sure Quinn will be much better (he's only been in office a few months).
Yours may be bad politicians, but ours are felons.
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Yours may be bad politicians, but ours are felons.
In degree of evil, Illinois politicians do beat out MN politicians; though one could debate the order of magnitude difference between the two, especially when considering that MN was previously regarded as one of (if not the) finest liberal states in the country in terms of services and overall quality of life.
On a side note, MN politicians are no longer mine - they actually haven't been for some time - as I moved from MN to an Eastern state just about 4 years ago. But if the trend of ever-increasingly-
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Guess it wasn't me. Dumbass.
downmodding (Score:1)
Dumbass.
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None. Besides, it seems that slashcode is smart enough to prevent me from up-modding sockpuppet accounts - I've tried it - tried upmodding my old red_foreman account with SmellyBumInLaJolla and it wouldn't work.
It's classified.
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And what is this with saying or not saying
"dumbass" ?
I choose to say it, as I notice it wards off evil spirits.
Dumbass.
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Boredom, dumbass. Boredom.
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Hairpinred.
What does hairpinred mean? Do you wear a red hairpin? Are you a guy?
Are you a red? Do you make hairpin turns?
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Sock puppets help exercise my brain, and keep me young and full of vital juices.
Your milage may vary.
Can you recommend other sock puppets? Besides that nasty pudge_confirmer, of course, I know about her.
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Her? Tits or GTFO.
Can't really recommend other sock puppets, but if you know anyone who is ripe for some satire (that I haven't already spoofed) then feel free to let me know, dumbass. Hell, I might even let you help.
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What a sucker! YHBT. Dumbass.
You think I care about karma? This is a free account!
Dumber ass.
Bite my nuts, like MJ says in the song, god rest his soul.
Dumbest ass! A perfect TRIFECTA!
Beat that. OR beat me off, all the same to me.
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Ok look. I posted, and your down mod remained.
Sigh. Once again, you have been defeated by your own massive ego. At no point did I accuse you of being behind this.
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*KISS*KISS*~!
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But you were thinking it!
Wrong again, but thanks for playing.
I see you have updated your signature to more closely mock my own. I would say well done, but that would give you too much credit. And you're at least a couple weeks late, at that.
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I can't figure out the mods sometimes, troll? WTF?? But it's actually meaningless, since your karma is solid and there's little chance of a journal comment being buried. I miss the old metamoderation.
But less offtopic, you mentioned how blue MN is, Illinois is now, but it wasn't always. Jim Thompson, a Republican, was Governor for sixteen years, Edgar was a Republkican too, as was the now imprisoned Ryan. At the time of the Republican Governors, iirc the Republicans had a majority in both chambers of the Il
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But it's actually meaningless, since your karma is solid
I've said the same. It is annoying nonetheless.
there's little chance of a journal comment being buried
I have suggested more than once that journal comment moderation should just simply be banned; or at least there could be an option when posting a journal entry to forbid moderation. It seems meaningless to moderate journal entries anyways; there are seldom enough comments to justify such action.
I miss the old metamoderation
Though it left plenty to be desired as well, they did indeed find a way to further break something that was already barely working with the more recent changes to m
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I have suggested more than once that journal comment moderation should just simply be banned
I don't know, if they're wasting their mod points in a journal they won't be mismodding a comment in an article, where it might actually matter.
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But crooks come in all parties.
Don't they ever [fjc.gov]! Ahhh memories...
From the wiki:
In 1969, Marge Lindheimer Everett, manager of Arlington Park and Washington Park race tracks, admitted bribing then-Governor Kerner and his Finance Director, Ted Isaacs, to gain choice racing dates and to get two expressway exits for her Arlington Park racetrack. The bribes were in the form of stock. Amazingly, the scandal came to light because Everett had deducted the value of the stock on her federal income tax returns under her