RSSHenry Hyde Announces Retirement
After a long and brilliant career in the US House of Representatives, Henry Hyde of Illinois announces he will retire at the end of his term in 2006.
Among his many accomplishments including chairing the House International Relations Committee, serving on the House Judiciary Committee and more famously known for being the chief manager in the impeachment against Clinton.
His national profile rose again in 1998 when he was the chief manager of the House impeachment case against Clinton. Some Democrats thought the former Chicago defense attorney with a strong reputation for fairness was the best possible person the Democratic president could expect to see in the job.
But while the Senate was unwilling to remove Clinton from office, Hyde said Clinton should be held accountable for lying under oath.
However, Henry Hyde’s career was much more than that. Here’s a list of his many accomplishments during his 32 years of distinguished service to our country.
Thank you Representative Hyde, you will be missed.
Schedule for the Vatican Conclave
Schedule for conclave of 115 cardinals to choose new pope:
Tuesday, April 19
- 7:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. EDT): Cardinals celebrate Mass in the hotel chapel.
- 9 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT): Cardinals gather in Sistine Chapel for initial two rounds of balloting.
- Noon (6 a.m. EDT): Approximate time of first smoke signal from Sistine Chapel. The cardinals break for lunch.
- 4 p.m. (10 a.m. EDT): Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel for two rounds of afternoon balloting.
- 7 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT): Approximate time of smoke signal after afternoon voting.
The rest of the days of the conclave are expected to follow Tuesday’s schedule. The Vatican spokesman said smoke signals from burned ballot papers could likely be seen at around noon (6 a.m. EDT) or 7 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT) each day.
Satire can not be translated to Italian (At least not by Google Translator)
The Right Nation, an Italian Blog, has picked up our Digital McCarthyite logo in a post.
I “maccartisti digitali” si organizzano. Ed à ¨ già pronto il logo della loro pericolosa associazione sovversiva (creato da Scared Monkeys). Si uniscono alla cospirazione Jump Blog, Ace of Spades, Vince Aut Morire, My Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Musing Minds, Nif, Daily Pundit, Cream & Bastards e INDC Journal (via The Jawa Report trackback). Intanto, a grande (si fa per dire) richiesta, ecco la seconda puntata della vera storia di Joe McCarthy.
The curious person that I am got me to do a Google Translation of the post, and it came out this way.
The “digital maccartisti them” are organized. And it is already ready the logo of their dangerous subversive association (created from Scared Monkeys). They join to the conspiracy Jump Blog, Ace of Spades, Gains Aut Morire, My Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Musing Minds, Nif, Daily Pundit, Cream & Bastards and INDC Journal (via The Jawa Report trackback). While, to large (if one may use the expression) demanded, here the second nose-dive of the true history of Joe McCarthy.
After reading the post, and if the Google Translator was correct, we had someone taking our humor very literally. Red commented to me that “they take us way too literal over their in Europe”, and being the agreeable person I am, felt that he was correct. So I went back to the Google Translator and typed in Satire for the English to Italian. The result was that the word “satire” could not be translated into Italian.
I will take their word for it. If anyone speaks Italian, please let me know a word that can be translated to convince these fine folks at The Right Nation that we come with humor, not malice.
I know that American Liberals lost their sense of humor in 2001 after the election. I did not know that it had spread over the seas.
UPDATE: I just learned a lesson, never trust Google Translator… It is what can not understand sarcasm. I just recieved a great email from the A.Man. who has the site “The Right Nation” and he informed me his post was dripping with sarcasm. So he is now a friend. Thanks
LOL! Dude… err… that was sarchasm too!
My sense of humour is still intact after US elections, maybe due to the fact that I was a strong Bush supporter
I totally got the satire in your post (and in your coooool logo). And I just wanted to join (somehow) this digital “conspiracy” to protest against the silly and whining words of Mary Mapes the Ratherite
a.man.
p.s. At the end of my 2 posts on the subject, there’s the link to an article (in 4 parts) that I wrote for the center-right wing newspaper Il Foglio about the REAL history of Joe McCarthy. If you can have that translated, somehow, I’m sure you will immediately understand my position. (sorry for my terrible english)
Cross Posted at Digital McCarthyites .
How Soft Do Educators Plan On Making Our Children
Are you kidding me? What’s next, no tests at all?
Wait a minute, don’t give them any ideas.
Why does the New York Times want to take down Tom DeLay?
Bob Livingston writes in Human Events online the reason the liberal media wants to take Tom DeLay out is because he is the most effective Majority Leader in 50 years. And they can not stand that. They even contacted Bob Livingston to write a op-ed on DeLay. When he told them it was going to be positive, they politely told him to never mind.
All of us who make our living inside the Beltway tend to develop pretty thick hides. I know Tom DeLay has one of the thickest. I am also fully aware of the time-honored tradition in a minority party–a “bombs away” attack agenda. The problem I have is the seemingly complete abdication of any independent thought by major media like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
These two venerable newspapers are confirming every Republican suspicion about East Coast media institutions. Coming on the heels of the Dan Rather and CBS News debacle during the presidential campaign, even the most open-minded conservatives begin to detect a trend.
First, let’s get some indisputable facts out on the table. DeLay has been the most effective majority leader of either party in the last half century. Even with the razor-thin margins he has had to work with, when was the last time he lost a vote? His understanding of the intricacies of redistricting is legendary. The only person I know who came close was Rep. John Burton, a liberal Democrat from California whose groundbreakin.g Again, while I lament that my Democratic friends in Congress seem to be more intense about personal attacks than offering legitimate legislative alternatives on the issues of the day, I can at least understand their motives and their goals. What I fail to understand–or perhaps what I hate to admit–is the rather blatant, pro-active cooperation in their campaign by the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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As now widely reported, I have recent experience with the attack dog mentality at the Times. When a representative of “All the News That’s Fit to Print” called me, the message was immediately obvious. The Times contacted my office fishing for a leading Republican to write a negative op-ed that would call for DeLay’s resignation. When I responded that any op-ed would likely be in defense of DeLay, the response was, “We’ll certainly consider it.” But the clear implication was, “Good luck. It’ll never see the light of day.”
It appears that the press corps has decided that DeLay, for his opinions, his intensity, his effectiveness and his leadership skills, should be the next journalistic scalp in their trophy case.
use of computerized gerrymandering in the 1970s was considered clever and praiseworthy by many of the same voices who condemn DeLay for the same talents. And on a personal note, DeLay is an honorable, compassionate human being who does not deserve the current treatment he gets from much of the media.
I am not surprised by the focus of the Times. It is their character now. They have become a house organ for the Democratic Party. I just hope that the blog world will expose them as CBS was exposed and the misnomer “Paper of Record” is taken from their perceived title.
