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Drone: Thanks For The Teachable Sex-Ed Moments

By Frank Naif on March 17, 2008 at 7:02 AM in Current Affairs, Media

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Does this ever bring back uncomfortable memories.

During the godawful confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas, my daughter was – oh gosh — about 7-8 years old. We’d have the radio on in the car, and I was constantly switching channels. I couldn’t have the TV news on at home. It was just awful because it was all so tawdry and embarrassing … it wasn’t that I was uptight about her hearing about sex. It was that the coverage was mostly so sensational, and ugly.

Then we went through the same during Clinton’s impeachment hearings.

I was angry with the Democrats the first time, furious with the Republicans in the second instance.

In both cases, imho, neither story had much to do with the serious matters at hand.

Btw, I used to vote for candidates in both parties. The Clinton impeachment hearings hardened my view on the Republican party. I couldn’t believe they’d impeach a president for such minor matters, and it was obvious — even to a busy single mom with no time to listen to the news — that they were on a witch hunt.
Strawberrybitch

Ahhh blow jobs. (sigh) Those were the good old days.
StatBabe

Man, do I ever agree with you! I, too, used to be a VERY independent voter. In fact, I can honestly say that I voted for more Republicans than Democrats back in the 70′s and 80′s because they campaigned on the promise of fiscal responsibility. Between the Clinton impeachment and the way Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush spent money like there was no tomorrow, hell will freeze over before I vote for another Republican!

As to the Monica Lewinsky debacle, I got an earful from my husband’s first wife about how terrible it was for Bill Clinton to engage in that behavior and how it was all his fault that so many teenagers were engaging in premarital sex! I didn’t say anything, but I wondered if the woman’s head was exploding on the other end of the telephone since NONE of this would have seen the light of day without the right-wing Republican slime machine hard at work!

Incidentally, that business with Clarence Thomas still irritates me–not because I agreed with Thomas’ ascendency to the Supreme Court, but because the hearings should have focused on the man’s lack of qualifications and temperment to be on the Supreme Court. All that business with Anita Hill was a sideshow that NEVER should have seen the light of day! Frankly, the thing that angered me most about the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was the cynical nature of that appointment. To think that George H. W. Bush had the gall to nominate that petulant, thin-skinned mental midget Clarence Thomas to replace the great Thurgood Marshall! I had actually voted FOR George H. W. Bush in 1988, but after that appointment, there was NO WAY IN HELL that I was voting for that man again in 1992! By 2000, I knew what George W. Bush was like from living in Texas so my vote went for “Big Al”. My only regret is that I could not convince a few of my relatives who “liked” the elder Bush that his son was NOTHING like his father!
Centrocitta

….I was angry with the Democrats the first time, furious with the Republicans in the second instance….

Both parties do have their faults. Now it seems Miss Matos, the soon to be ex wife of the former governor of New Jersey, is suing him for $6,000,000 because he defrauded her by not informing her before marriage that he was a homosexual. Yeah, that IS something, I think most women would like to know ahead of time, considering I also married a homosexual, who did not disclose his sexual preference beforehand.

But I didn’t get to sue for $600,000. In fact all I got was an Austin, TX attorney who fired me as his client and kept my cash. Yeah, this Matos case has really got me wondering how much the man I was married to might be worth NOW. Or at least what his conniving family might be worth NOW!
MessyMarcy

I disagree about Clarence Thomas (but admittedly I have no children that I had to ‘splain things to). You’re right that the focus should have been on his lack of qualifications, but this guy was the head of the EEOC and was being named to the Supreme Court. Testimony or any other evidence of past acts of sexual harassment were more than appropriate at his confirmation hearing, and I was furious when I learned that more women were willing to come forward but were not allowed to speak by Biden, et al. I will never forgive him, Leahy and Kennedy for the way Anita Hill was treated.
simon

The boys need to grow up.

It’s wrong to hurt your family, so carelessly.

One minute it’s blow jobs, next it’s needlessly murdering over a million Iraqis, because you don’t understand the impact of your actions, and “me first.”
Montag

Here’s a funny news article: “Shin Bet Blog Goes Live,” about Israel’s security service proving to be as boring in real life as our resident cartoonist has been telling us.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965222.html
TeakWoodKite

And now all this is going before the Supremes…”God Bless America and pass the…oh NOO; not that! , I thought it v chipped that channel!
StatBabe

That business with Spitzer reminds me of that old joke about how little boys are made with part of the brain relocated below the waist. Of course, there are differences in the amount of brains that gets transplanted below the waist, and these differences become readily apparent when boys grow into men with those men with the greatest amount of brains relocated below the waist becoming politicians. Occasionally, a boy is made with a truly inordinant amount of brains transplanted below his waist, and these men we generally refer to as either “Mr. President” or “Governor”.
StatBabe

One minute it’s blow jobs, next it’s needlessly murdering over a million Iraqis, because you don’t understand the impact of your actions, and “me first.”

What a great contrast of lies and consequences! With the first “lie”, the GOP spends $60 million to expose the fact that Bill Clinton got blow jobs from some fat intern flashing her thong at him and lied about it to avoid his wife and daughter from finding out (and I DO believe that ol’ Bill’s primary motive in shading the truth was to avoid telling Hillary and Chelsea), and the ONLY true victims were Bill Clinton’s family and the fat intern who will forever be remembered for the blue dress from the Gap. The GOP thinks that this “lie” rises to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” and thus, impeaches the president.

With the second “lie”, our country ends up invading a country (Iraq) that had NOTHING to do with 9/11, slaughtering a million Iraqis, having almost 4,000 of our own soldiers killed in the process (and still counting) and another tens of thousands of our soldiers wounded (and still counting), and the price tag is likely to top a trillion dollars. In this case, the GOP continues to defend the president who told the “lie” and to this day, many of the same sanctimonious pricks that insisted on impeaching Clinton for “lying” about his blow jobs still refuse to acknowledge that invading Iraq was based on “lies”! In contrast, the weak-kneed Democrats refuse to even open hearings to determine whether Bush’a “lies” and his exposure of a covert CIA officer merit impeachment!

While the failure of the Democrats to DO THEIR JOBS and open impeachment hearings certainly irritates me, the actions of the GOP are unforgiveable! And do not EVEN get me started on Bush and Cheney!