What a turd :(

As they say, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It's good to have Bagdad Bob back in the fray. The more noise he makes, the more Republicans he makes. Although I am still hoping that someday the democrat party will split, and a "Scoop Jackson" branch will emerge. That'll be a great day for the US. Actually having two parties with intelligence and concern for democracy.

Guess they should rename it the Dhimmi award.

Oh goody ...my Friday warm and fuzzy moment.

Oh, Danny Boy!

This award is in addtion to his other Moonbat awards:

• "Treasury Guardian" by Taxpayers for Common Sense Action
• Leadership in Justice in Government Award, HateFreeZone Campaign of WA
• Ralph Bunche Peace and Justice Award, Washington State Bar Association
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award for Community Service, University of Washington Medical School and Health Sciences Center
• President's Award, Minority Executive Directors Coalition of King County
• Distinguished House Defender, Healthy Communities Access Coalition
• Physicians for Social Responsibility Congressional Achievement Award
• Sami Nasser Community Activism Award, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Diego Chapter
• Service Award, Indian American Friendship Council
• The Don Kazama Human Rights Award, Seattle Chapter, Japanese American Citizens League
• Honorary Life Membership, Nisei Veterans Committee
• Human Rights Day Award, Seattle Chapter, U.N. Association of U.S.A.
• Coalition of AGOA Supporters, recognition of outstanding leadership on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
• Public Citizen, recognition of leadership and commitment to universal and comprehensive health coverage for all Americans
• Constituent of the Year, Exemplary Support of Africa and co-sponsoring Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Constituency for Africa
• Outstanding Legislation Award, Authorship of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Blacks in Government
• Friendship Award, Indian Association of Western Washington
• Paul Beeson Peace Award, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Guardian of Women's Health Award, for courageous acts to promote and protect safe, affordable health care for all women, Aradia Women's Health Center

Do moonbats have feathers, by the way?

More likely they have very thin membranes stretched over spindly limbs...yuck.

#2 Athos

As they say, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

So true

Do moonbats have feathers, by the way?

No, I believe they're hairless, like James Carville.

Like I said before, all of these "humanist" awards that people give to themselves or to a bird that is in their flock don't have the value of used toilet paper.

/awards? I'm not impressed.

I don't *have* to read his wretched diary, do I?

#8 FabioC.

Do moonbats have feathers, by the way?

Evidence would indicate their craniums have them, at any rate.

Speaking of Jim McDermott, do you want to know why the House Ethics Committee is not meeting to address the Tom Delay concerns?

SOURCE: Beltway Buzz

DeLay notes that liberal House member Jim McDermott is also under investigation and would likely be removed from office if the Ethics committee convened. McDermott was found guilty of leaking illegally taped phone conversations to the New York Times of a Republican’s cell-phone conversations.

This would explain McDermott's new career path.

I don't need to give the Daily Kos any hits. I have McDermott's cell phone frequency wired into my radio which tapes every conversation he has.

I haven't found an interested publisher though. I wonder why?

#15- Axiom

I wonder why such a stand-up guy like Kos wouldn't put one of those "in the interests of full disclosure" tags on the end of that story and mention McDermott's situation.

#17 tankdemon

McDermott's defense is to wrap himself in the first amendment.

Fortunately, a federal judge scolded McDermott saying his actions were approaching "malice". McDermott was ordered to pay $60,000 in damages and reimbursement for roughly half a million dollars in legal fees.

McDermott has appealed.

On a semi-related OT but still associated note:

Googles new satellite image db has some interesting features: check here

An excerpt:

"I was initially focused on the usability of the images as a way to help people navigate," said John Hanke, general manager of the Keyhole group at Google. "So I didn't anticipate the fascination that people would have for poring through these images looking for anomalies."

Hanke explained that the Keyhole database included as much as 15 terabytes of images when Google bought it, and that the company refreshes images about once every 18 months.

He also explained that because of things like fog and clouds, specific regional satellite images can be a composite of several stitched-together pictures.

That reality leads people like Leeds to wonder if images like the Burning Man setup and the Castro Street Fair show up because Google or Keyhole employees wanted them to be there.

But Hanke prefers to focus on the excitement users are getting looking for the unexpected.

"It's kind of like playing one of those adventure games," he said, "where you have to click on every part of the screen to find that box that will open."

Now why would anyone want to "stitch together" a satellite image to show something that wasn't really there at the time...?

Hahah. I should have read McDermott's diary post sooner. The whole post is about ETHICS. Bwahahahahahha.

The Ethics Committee investigation of McDermott is about the same subject McDermott writes about in his diary. McDermott had to resign from the Ethics Committee -- something he chaired before the "Contract With America" produced the biggest congressional election shift in American history -- because a Florida couple revealed to the press that they gave an illegal recording of Gingrich's cellular phone calls to McDermott.

McDermott the Hermit?

Moonbats Progressives can't commit ethics violations because they mean well. Only nasty fascist Rethuglicans can do evil. In fact, everything they do is evil. We should kill them all...for the greater good.

/must I?

A long Snarky self-congratulatory diatribe about "getting Gingritch" and now Payback for DeLays stagemanaging the "Texas Showdown" over redistricting.

Thank you Moonbat McDermott, (yawn) for the tutorial on something the Heritage Foudation was writing books on in 1981...

"Special Counsels" sole purpose is to attack your political enemies.

Is anyone else just completely amazed that there are now several Democratic politicians writing for a website whose host said, "Screw them!" to 4 Americans when their bodies were mutilated in a foreign country?

And these people wonder why their party lost the election?

Scoop Jackson, FDR, JFK and Truman are spinning in their graves. What ever happened to "We will pay any price, bear any burden in the defense of liberty" that used to be attributed to Democrats?

I have despised this man ever since I saw him on TV in Iraq bashing President Bush and America. What is wrong with these idiots in Washington State to elect this pervert?

ot

la times readership off by 5.5%

[Link: www.editorandpublisher.com...]

' “One of their best friends, [Rep.] Jim McDermott, is being investigated, and they don’t want him to be kicked out of Congress I mean, this guy has been found guilty — guilty by a court of law — and they don’t want an ethics committee.”'

Unreal

Guilty in a court of law but not in guilty in the eyes of the MSM

There's more.

Don't neglect the fact that Rep. McDermott is covering his own ass in light of the announcement of indictments in the UN Oil for Food scandal that included McDermott's "rich uncle pennybags" Shakir al-Khafaji. Al-Khafaji is the Iraqi-American with ties to Saddam that contributed $5000 to McDermott's legal defense fund. That legal defense fund was set up to defend McDermott against the lawsuits filed against him by the congressman that had his phone calls illegally recorded and McDermott leaked to the press.

Al-Khafaji is also the financial backer of the "relief" organization that paid for McDermott to travel to Iraq before the war to slime President Bush. This was another one of those "fact finding" missions that revealed absolutley nothing related to the mass graves that are still being uncovered today.

Perhaps another referral to the Ethics committe is in order for Rep. McDermott.

#27 Rayra

The best of the "payola Family members" is Rep. Bernie Sanders, the only "independent" in the Congress. He called reporting by a Vermont newspaper " a lie" despite the fact that his own staff confirmed the details of the payments.

Original Report

Editorial Response to Sanders' denial

Just think, in 20 years, he'll have a best-selling workout video, and in 30 years, McDermott will be writing a tell-all about threesomes and his unhealthy body image.

Bagdad Jim is an asshole, so are the jerks he represents. I hate Seattle, and I live in WA.

I hope he will soon be ex-Rep. McDermott.

Adios, Baghdad Jim!

"The best-beloved of all things in My sight is Justice. Turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me." The Lord of Hosts

WHOAH!

The LEFT are a carricature of escaped mental patients from the psycho ward

Don't stay too long!

#24 dear Bluebonnet. Its not Washington state. Its King county. The rest of the state is humiliated and disgusted by him. King county and Seattle should have their own little state, er something.

KICK HIM OUT

Charles doesn't have trackbacks... linked this on Sound Politics.

When I read "The Fall of the House of Ethics" by Jim McDermott, why do I get the feeling I am crawling through an unlit tunnel inside Jim McDermott's head?

#28 AXIOM:"That legal defense fund was set up to defend McDermott against the lawsuits filed against him by the congressman that had his phone calls illegally recorded and McDermott leaked to the press."

The couple who happened to record Gingrich's conversations have been fined. Gingrich was inadvertabtly caught trying to spin away the conclusions of the Ethics Committee DESPITE promising not to do so.

Am I to understand that JM intercepted cell-phone conversations? That's a federal offence. Keep him in congress but arrest him.

Well, at least no one can accuse him of being a "closet moonbat"