Drone: Thanks For The Teachable Sex-Ed Moments
By Frank Naif on March 17, 2008 at 7:02 AM in Current Affairs, Frank Naif, Media, Nat'l Security Drone
Vote for NoQuarter, finalists for "Best Political Coverage"!
You can vote every day. No registration required!
Thank you to our loyal readers who voted us into the finals as the blog with "Best Political Coverage." No registration required! VOTE EVERY DAY here for "Best Political Coverage." (What possible chance do we have against fellow nominee Daily Kos's army of voters? But we WILL try!)
Please also vote for our dear friend and valued NQ contributor Uppity Woman for "Best New Blog."
Larry Johnson's Bio
Best Books of 2008
Editors'
/ Customers' Lists
ESSENTIAL READING: The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal
+ Blumenthal's prescient The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party
A must-buy: The Dark Side by great New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer.
Amazon's BEST SELLERS
With 95 five-star ratings: Vinturi Essential Wine Aerator
The West Wing - The Complete Series Collection
Once $299.98, now yours for $149.99.
Recommended by a valued friend: Richard Yates' novel was $14.95, now $10.17: Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Calphalon Commercial Hard-Anodized 9-Piece Cookware Set, regularly $492.00, now only $249.99.
From $168 to $39.99!: Calphalon Commercial Hard-Anodized 12-Inch Everyday Pan with Lid
ALL Calphalon products. (Santa brought Susan a Calphalon pan; I've never had a pan so easy to clean, and that cooks everything so perfectly.)
... and an array of Kitchen & Dining aids.
Save 62%: Was $49.99, now $18.95 - Furi Pro 5-Inch East-West Knife--Professional Food Prep Knife
Introducing BEAUTY BRIDGE, a new affiliate that offers only the highest quality products, free shipping and fast delivery:
We can't recommend this "Gold Box" page enough. Every day Amazon lists its best deals on this one page:
GOLD BOX DAILY DEALS
SEARCH HERE FOR ALL PRODUCTS:
We have uncovered remarkable savings here:
DEEP Savings! Outlet Toys
Today's Deals, Electronics
Today's Deals, Computers
Daily Deals & Bargains
Pet Supplies & Deals
This Red Pepper & Tomato soup is delicious!
Pacific Natural Foods sells Soups, Stews & Stocks (including Pacific Natural Foods Organic Soup, Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato, 16-Ounce Units (Pack of 12) for $27.76 (wholly unlike typical canned soups, still economical) and Beverages.All Organic Grocery Sales
ALL GROCERY PRODUCTS:
Was $49.99, now $22.91 * Belkin Lifetime Warranty and $300,000 Connected Equipment Warranty * Belkin 12-Outlet Home/Office Surge Protector with Phone/Ethernet/Coaxial Protection and Extended Cord
This delicious rice, regularly $20.68, now $15.91 for a six-pack, is eco-farmed in California with strict environmental standards.
Essential In Every Car * This car escape tool's double-sided, steel hammer heads break through side and rear windows * Razor-sharp blade cuts easily through safety belts * Mounting bracket & glow-in-the-dark fluorescent pin: LifeHammer Emergency Hammer
Save 10% ($19.95, now $17.99): ResQMe, keychain version of LifeHammer, two-pack
Save 49%! Was $149.95, now 76.99 (lowest: $69.99) Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
KINDLE's Everything Store
Kindle Books
* Kindle Magazines & Journals * Kindle Newspapers * Kindle Accessories 
* Kindle Blogs * Kindle Discussions * Manage Your Kindle
Patricia Cornwell's latest: Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta)
Pre-order Season Seven of "24" at 35% savings! (View episode videos)
Accutire MS-4350B Programmable Digital Tire Gauge
+ ALL Automotive Parts & Accessories
TV Central|Blowout Deals
Larry posted "If You Can Only Watch One Movie" about Judgment at Nuremberg, a film that belongs on any collector's shelf.
All of J.K. Rowling's Works
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Try these delicious, healthy hazelnuts, easily stored, always fresh, in your freezer or refrigerator: Were $55.92, now $43.02 (23% off) Bob's Red Mill Whole, Dry Roasted Oregon Hazelnuts, Six 10-Ounce Packages
+ CHECK OUT ALL OF
Bob's Red Mill Products
Healthy, Delicious & Economical
Thank you to our loyal readers who voted us into the finals as the blog with "Best Political Coverage." No registration is required.(What possible chance do we have against fellow nominee Daily Kos's army of voters? But we WILL try!)
Please also vote for our dear friend and valued NQ contributor Uppity Woman for "Best New Blog."
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.
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!
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.
Ahhh blow jobs. (sigh) Those were the good old days.
….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!
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.”
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!
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
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!
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”.