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The director and pedophile was captured in Switzerland on a U.S. warrant and now faces extradition. Polanski plead guilty to this 1977 sexual assualt crime with a 13 year old before he fled the country.
Daily Commentary – Monday, September 28th, 2009 – Roman Polanski Arrested [1:22m]: | DownloadWilliam Safire, News Columnist & Former Nixon Speechwriter Dead at the Age of 79, Rest in Peace
William Safire: 1929 - 2009, RIP.
They do not make them anymore like William Safire and sadly William Safire has passed way today at the age of 79. Today, journalism lost a gem. The journalistic tapestries that this wordsmith could create was like few others. The long time NY Times columnist “was hired to be a sore thumb” at the famously liberal newspaper. Safire was a journalist’s journalist who took no prisoners and most importantly never knew what the definition of PC meant. One always knew they were going to get the straight forward and brutally honest truth from William Safire. Rest in Peace … We lost a truly special person today.
Safire, the former Richard Nixon speech writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times columnist, died at 79 today from pancreatic cancer. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist died at a hospice in Rockville, MD.
William Safire receiving the President Medal of Freedom in 2006
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79.
The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Rosemary Shields.
There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history
Roman Polanski Arrested by Swiss Police on US Arrest Request for 1977 Sex Case with a 13 Year Old Girl
76 year old Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a decade old arrest warrant for Polanski’s involvement 1977 for having sex with a 13 year old girl. Polanski plead guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor; however, fled the United States before being sentenced.
Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland
So much for personally receiving the lifetime achievement award Zurich Film Festival … director Roman Polanski arrested.
Polanski, 76, was taken into custody trying to enter Switzerland on Saturday, Zurich police said. A spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry said Polanski was arrested upon arrival at the airport.
Posted September 27, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Arrest, Child Welfare, Crime, Sex Offender, World | 27 comments |
Former President Bill Clinton Says on Meet the Press … “… what’s the best way to get to universal coverage”
Once again with Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama, it all depends on what the definition of is, is.
Did every one catch what former President Bill Clinton said this morning on “Meet the Press”? Check out the video below (1:00 mark) where Clinton brings up that a debate needed to get the discussion to what their ultimate goal is, universal health care. This is a nuanced code for single payer healthcare.
“We need a credible debate about what’s the best way to get to universal coverage.”
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Barack Obama is a proponent of a single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. But as Obama has stated in the past, that may not happen immediately. First we have to take back the White House, the Senate and the House. Obama’s plan was to take control of both the Senate and the House, pass through a public health care option that will eventually undermine private insurance in the United States and thus get his single payer health care plan by default. How obvious could this possibly be?
I mean, they may be hurting President Obama. They can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up. But fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America. Their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail, and that’s not a prescription for a good America. We actually need a credible debate about what’s the right balance between continuing to expand the economy through stimulus and beginning to move back to fiscal balance. We need a credible debate about what’s the best way to get to universal coverage.
Posted September 27, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Healthcare, Obamacare, Socialism, WTF | 10 comments |
Obamanomics: VP Joe Biden … “In my wildest dreams I never thought it would work this well.”
VP Biden may need to have his head and dreams analyzed if he believes that this dream is not a complete nightmare.
Vice President Joe Biden might want to come back to that little place I like to call Earth. His latest comments regarding the $787 billion stimulus package would make even the most ardent democrat Kool-Aid drinker take pause and stare in disbelief.
As he’s been known to do, Vice President Joe Biden made a remark that the GOP has pounced on. Biden was touting the success of the economic recovery package in a conference call yesterday with governors from around the country, when he said this…
“In my wildest dreams I never thought it would work this well.”
Posted September 27, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Economy, Joseph Biden, Obamanomics, Politics, WTF | 3 comments |
