Dang! I'm glad they kept him alive and sheltered for all that time.

Tragically, too many shelter animals don't get much time.

Thank you joeybee12 for posting this. A little happy ending to wrap up the work week!

Welcome to DU, Tipperary!

Glad you're here! Man, the irony here is almost excruciating. This Stand Your Ground shit is liable to smack ol' Zimmerman upside the head. I'd call it just desserts.

Our idiot myopic pushover Dems FINALLY got around to setting up something formal to address this.

FINALLY!!!! Shoulda started this at least a decade ago!!!!

DAYUM it takes our side a long time to catch on.

http://dlcc.org/news/dlcc-launches-advantage-2020-key-success-next-round-redistricting-70-million-plus-effort

Neither were we. All we had was the ability to speculate.

Clue #1: 3.5 MILLION dollars - must have been something pretty bad to require that high a level of pay-out. That's a SHITLOAD of money!

Clue #2: there was that reference to something that happened back when he was a high school wrestling coach. Okay - if it wasn't some sort of molestation or other sexual predatory crime, why would that little detail be brought up - referring specifically to his life BEFORE he went into politics? Why was it important or considered relevant to throw that in? Why would that even be part of the discussion - if it was just a bank-related (or business-related) thing?

Clue #3: if indeed it was that sort of thing, whoever the victim was - is grown now, and while the statute of limitations has knocked it out of bounds by now, something's evidently still up. Does that individual still have an axe to grind?

And of course, the more that seeps out, the more questions we have.

No kidding! THIS is the GOP's idea of a "clean," and "scandal-free" leader.

I was tempted to use the ROFL smilie, at least regarding the irony in my reply title. But considering there's a victim here, it's no laughing matter.

He always looked like a huge walking, talking case of constipation, at least to me.

That last one!

They all answer to a higher norquist. Dear God...

dennis hastert always looked, to me, like a big fart waiting to happen.

Indeed. I remember that. I remember one pathetic upper-middle-aged white woman

who'd just lost her job, lost her benefits, and was facing some pretty dismal times. But somehow, what concerned her most, what struck her as the more unforgivable outrage, the most unbearable affront, the most mortal of all mortal sins - was the absence of a flag pin on the lapel of then-candidate Barack Obama. She just couldn't bring herself to vote for somebody who didn't wear a flag pin. She actually said that. On camera. In all her shining idiot unhinged bubble-dwelling pathetic-ness. I guess when facing devastation and maybe even eviction from her home because of her lost job, she STILL had a key to the front door of that nice safe comforting little CON bubble she lived in full-time, bless her little pin-headed heart. She'd much rather take the rich vulture who cared more about his own bank balance and potential power (and that of all his rich little vulture friends) than he EVER would about her predicament, than she did about the guy who came up from next-to-nothing and actually wanted to try to help people like her.

I swear - I wanted to smack MYSELF in the face with a 2x4 on that one. Could. NOT. Believe. It.

And then you have to compound that by factoring in how many people these 19 newly-trained

young sickos will injure and warp and twist and defile, and RUIN.

They should NOT be allowed to breed further. That would lead to further crimes foisted upon the rest of humanity, another generation down.

Does make me wonder - if josh duggar diddled his younger sisters - WHERE DID HE GET THAT? Whose example was HE following, I wonder. Sins of the father, maybe? As my late and beloved mother-in-law used to say - "they don't suck it out of their thumbs."

These people are SCUM. SCUM of the earth.

With apologies to SCUM of the earth everywhere.

It starts with the flicking of a ruler on the skin of a baby on a blanket.

THE CONDITIONING starts with the flicking of a ruler on the skin of a baby on a blanket.

The NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT CONDITIONING, BY INFLICTING PAIN, starts with the flicking of a ruler on the skin of a baby on a blanket.

FUCK!!!!!!!

I stand with Dan Savage. I hope their very name becomes another definition of the worst and most vile and evil and reprehensible, unforgivable shit that ever cursed this civilization. SYNONYMOUS for some of the worst sins humankind knows how to commit.