Foley scandal

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Okay, it's been all over the news for the past 2 weeks, so I thought a post should be made on it. What do you guys think? Did the Speaker and others knew of Foley's behavior and attempted to cover it up?

I used to watch C-SPAN a lot a few years ago and I remember Foley making a tribute speech to the pages. I specifically remember him getting tears in his eyes from his speech. He was the only one who cried while giving his speech. It seemed bizarre at the time, but I didn't think anything else of it...until now.

Consider this...
just before the 9/11 attacks, the long running lead story on CNN et-al was about whether or not Sen. Gary Condit was banging Chandra Levy.
Now, Imagine you are an Islamic fundamentalist living in poverty. You already veiw the US as a hotbed of sin and the number one news story coming out of there is about the sexual indescresions of their polliticains.

After the attacks, so many American citizens were left scratching their heads and wondering "why do they hate us?.. we're Americans for god's sake!"

You know that Osama and the boys watch CNN too, right?

Are you somehow equating homosexuals ("peter puffers") with men who are sexually attracted to children? (Given the way you describe homosexuals, I'm guessing you're sitting on a big, long insecurity complex.)It was fairly widely known that Foley acted pretty weird toward the pages, possibly as far back as 1997. There is good evidence that Hastert's office was informed of the weirdness, but for whatever reason, Hastert decided to do nothing about it. Hopefully the investigation will settle it. But Hastert's blamining the press, the Democrats, and George Soros sounded very nutty.I don't know that the press sat on the info, but even if they did, it's not their job to protect the pages. That is congress' job.

In reply to: it's a good bet that all the peter puffers in his circle of the world sure did! In reply to: feel free to "guess" whatever you want about me Call it an attack if you want but I don't think anyone has to "guess" anything how you feel about it.

I'm pretty sure you're gay. You shouldn't consider it an attack. Is it bad to be gay, my very insecure bully, er, I mean, friend? If your avatar was of Asian guy, I'd say I'm pretty sure you're Asian. No big deal. Just remember who keeps using derogatory terms to describe gays. Hint: you do.I wonder if the Doc who owns this place would be down with gay-bashing moderators? Maybe, just maybe, it's time to grow up. Or maybe you should ban yourself. Or something like that.I think that gay Republicans in Washington are waiting for the other shoe to drop, when the right-wing wack jobs start blasting the "gay pedophiles". All those Log Cabin Republicans who are in it for smaller government and a strong military are in for trouble.

Isn't a Foley catheter a tube that's stuck up the penis?

If this thread degenerates into personal attacks it will be locked. This is a warning for all.

One of your mods seems to have a problem with homosexuals. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I don't smoke.

Your metaphorical pipe. The one with metaphorical smoke coming out of it.

When I try to work out what the metaphor actually means, it trails into vapour.

You always seem to take offense to someone deriding "gaydom". Are you gay?

OK, then disrgegard the second sentence and ponder instead the first one. You have a homophobe in servitude.

In servitude? To me?Perfection is not required of anyone here. At least I hope not.

No. But I do live in a mostly-gay area. I'd be the same way about other sorts of bigotry, were they as common and seemingly accepted as gay bashing. Gays and overweight people still seem to be fair game to a lot of people.Would it be a bigger deal if a mod said "jungle bunny" rather than "peter puffer"? If so, then why?

In reply to: "jungle bunny" I can't work that one out...

Jeeeeez. I guess we all have varying ideas about perfection. But it seems that some forms of "imperfection" are clearly in violation of the user agreement for this site, which in reality doesn't seem to be worth the recycled electrons it's printed with.

It's a very nasty, old-ish insult toward blacks. My aunt used it (and worse) in front of me when I was a little kid.

It's a bird!! No.. It's a plane!!.. No.. It's SuperSteeeeve!!!... Defender of social injustice. LOL

If a mod or admin or any poster says something you find offensive, you (or any poster) are entitled to express objections to the term, and to the thought behind it. Then the effect of the offensive term is counteracted and readers are alerted to think for themselves.This can be done without attacking the original person, and it will be more effective that way - indeed it's the only (slim) chance you have of changing the original person's view.