If someone kills or injures a police dog, the crime is the same as if they did it to a human officer. The amount of time, money, and training that go into these animal officers is worth the protection. It isn't as if the department paid for it, it was a donation, so it didn't spend anyone's tax dollars.
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Originally posted by valkyrie
My next liberal cause is going to be providing volunteers to hug angry conservatives.
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I think this guy would help with your cause!
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Give the sad Republican party a big hug
By Frank McGovern
Argonaut Staff
In the dark days after the election, I found a spring of joy from an unlikely source: Bill O’Reilly.
O’Reilly, as most of you probably know, was recently charged with sexually harassing Andrea Mackris, an employee of “The O’Reilly Factor.” Motivated entirely by my interest in the details of our country’s legal system, I found transcripts on the Net of recordings of O’Reilly talking dirty to Mackris. I’m too lazy to re-find the site, but if you are interested, just Google in something like “O’Reilly sex Caribbean shower” and see what you get.
While there is nothing funny about sexual harassment, there is something hilarious about Bill O’Reilly’s emotionally stunted sexual rambling. Included with O’Reilly’s sweet nothings are warnings to Mackris that if she were to ever tell anyone about his proclivity for calling her while he … self-factored, he would destroy her career.
Mackris’ decision to blow the whistle on O’Reilly, opening herself up to a whirlwind of ugly attacks and innuendo is fodder for another column, but during the course of my perusal I came to a conclusion: Bill O’Reilly is an unhappy man.
He settled the case out of court recently for a cool $2 million. O’Reilly, honesty incarnate that he is, maintained that the nasty phone calls he made were part of an entirely consenting, vicarious, phone-sex relationship. Mackris, he contends, was as interested as any pretty young woman in her right mind would be to hear a loudmouthed, middle-aged bully freak out. Even if that was the case, it still means that Gibraltar of morality Bill O’Reilly was engaging in this exchange while married.
As satisfying as that hypocrisy is, I found it sad that there is so much Republican sadness. Just look at the self-medicating outlets of some of our most puritanical elephants.
George W. Bush: former alcoholic and drug abuser, a Freudian field day of parental insecurity issues; now vents his neuroses on the browner-skinned peoples of the world.
Rush Limbaugh: obesely vulnerable and gluttonous consumer of drugs and food, now on his third marriage.
William Bennett: famous moralist, evangelical Christian and gambling addict.
Strom Thurmond: recently deceased ancient racist, supporter of segregation and father of at least one illegitimate black child.
Newt Gingrich: cheated on and divorced his wife while she fought breast cancer (brought divorce papers to her in bed at the hospital).
Dick Cheney: just look at the poor guy.
John Ashcroft: so sexually unsettled that he covered the breasts of a statue.
Bill O’Reilly: aforementioned adulterous phone sex enthusiast.
Ollie North: convicted felon.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: along with making “Junior” and “Raw Deal,” has an exposed history of chronic sexual harassment.
Ralph Reed: one of the heads of the Christian Coalition and architect of Bush’s decidedly un-Christian campaign in the Bible Belt; was recently caught engaged in a coke-fueled man-orgy with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. (I assume this to be the case. The media never said it didn’t happen.)
The list goes on and on.
Not to say that Democrats don’t have their vices; Bill Clinton was libidinous enough to qualify as an honorary Kennedy. The difference is that the Democrats are having fun.
When the right came down on Clinton, they opened up with both barrels, fomenting one of the ugliest political campaigns against an individual in American history. And if you think Hillary’s statement that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” coalesced to destroy her husband is hyperbole, read “The Hunting of the President.”
To the vitriolic dismay of nearly every right-winger in the country, Clinton survived his impeachment smelling like roses. The lone Democratic presidency in the past nearly quarter century marked by peace, a great economy and a surplus. An oasis of prosperity in a desert of Republican warmongering and almost exponentially accumulating debt. Despite all that, Clinton’s presidency will forever be associated with his Monica Lewinsky debacle.
A while ago, Bush sold off more than $700,000 worth of stock after being warned not to because of the corporation’s shaky financial ground. This indiscretion is almost identical to Martha Stewart’s, except with 10 times more money. You’d figure that in an era where the President’s sexual indiscretions are the impetus for impeachment, and invading a country with no weapons of mass destruction or al-Qaida ties isn’t, the Republicans would be thrilled, but they’re not. They continue to lash out with their drugs and gambling and phone-sex and restrictive constitutional amendments.
I came to realize that I was thinking of Republicans as they think of nearly everyone else: with anger, resentment and fear. That’s just not the way a progressive Democrat should operate.
So the next time you’re arguing with a Republican and you can see the beginnings of an odious facial distortion at the idea helping our fellow man, give him a hug. Who knows; a little affection may save him from a lifetime of drug abuse, gambling, phone sex and Fox News viewing.
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