even Barbara Mikulski?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
http://maxrust.net/HASTERT_TIMELINE/WRESTLING.JPG
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
state champs!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/images/daily/hastert2_1976.jpg
man was there *anybody* on the GOP "impeach Clinton" team that wasn't hiding some sex scandal of their own?
― Οὖτις, Friday, May 29, 2015 3:24 PM
even Hillary was a secret lesbian
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
so how is this not blackmail anyway
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
i know i shdnt be shocked but this is honestly kind of shocking wow
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
I'm kinda shocked that this is some decades-spanning shit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
huge amounts of money too
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/here-is-a-creepy-phone-call-dennis-hastert-once-got-on-c-spa
is he running for president yet
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
wow that CSPAN call I wonder if Denny started shitting bricks right there
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
all Coach "Handsy" Hastert talk goes here!
would be surprised if there's just one victim tbh. these types of dudes are never one-and-done.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah already talk of another one
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm constantly amazed at the kind of memory people have for this kind of weird shit:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/243418-dennis-hastert's-weird-2014-CSPAN-call
I wouldn't have thought twice about that call; and it might wind up being unrelated; but that it even stuck in someone's head long enough for cspan to have created a page for it and for people to bring it up now is ... i don't know how much time people have to obsess on this kind of ephemera.
― akm, Friday, May 29, 2015 8:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also that caller sounds kind of young to have been abused by Hastert in the 60's but maybe he's turned into some kind of man-child, like a Chuck and Buck thing.
― akm, Friday, May 29, 2015 8:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Denny and Benny
― akm, Friday, May 29, 2015 8:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'll stop now.
― akm, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
well, look at those strapping Midwestern grapplers. i don't think Plato wd've done any different. xp
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
sorry for posting abt this on the presidential candidate thread.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 29 May 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
there was a drivers ed teacher from my school who ended up going to prison after teaching for 25 years and every single girl at school was like that guy is creepy and up to no good
I'm sure we all have stories like this
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
soccer coach "started" dating a girl from the team right after she graduated
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
mine got caught, fled the state, was lured back by the victim, arrested and sent to trial, convicted and sent to prison, got out and ... got a teaching post in the midwest
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
where I think he still is to this day, haven't checked in awhile
what how is that possible
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
yup here he is (hmm no mention of it in his CV, how odd):http://www.nwc.edu/sites/music/faculty-staff/person.html?id=6d76bd1a-5da9-4020-affe-84913e9d2c41
stay away, young ladies!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I can only assume that a) WY has extremely lax laws in this regard and b) since he's working with people who are over 18 somehow it's all... okay?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
WY is not the midwest FWIW
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 29 May 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
oh fine
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
that guy looks like a fucking creep also SAX
― akm, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
no one (including my dad, who was on the teaching staff with him) was surprised when he got arrested - rumors and malicious jokes had swirled around him for years, female classmates would joke about not wanting to be left alone w him etc.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
which is how it usually is with these things, kids tell other kids and stuff becomes kind of an open secret
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
the morality teacher at my catholic high school got busted banging a student. he told her to get an abortion.
he was also married to a v attractive lady and had a baby. what a moran.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 29 May 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
My neighbor got arrested and served some time for having a sexual encounter with one of his 16 year old students. I've seen his ex-wife at the post office and the deli.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 30 May 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
kind of weird to see woody allen apologist shakey mo going in on this teacher
― een, Sunday, 31 May 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/30/rand-paul-vows-to-force-expiration-of-patriot-act/?hpid=z4
Senate in session on a Sunday
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 May 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
xp an indictment of dude's sax skills
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
I am not an apologist wtf
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Sax teacher was convicted of a crime, looks like hastert will be too (also paying hush money is p much an admission of guilt)
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/us/shaken-by-charges-for-denny.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
“That was the thing about him,” said Marty Kermeen, 58, who makes stone labyrinths. “It wasn’t like Jon Bon Jovi rolled up."
― jennifer islam (silby), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
een counted the number of stabs you delivered and carefully gauged the vigor of your blows, and found both to fall short of the required standard of enthusiasm, so... you're next.
― Aimless, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Hilarious that its gonna be a gop congress that guts the patriot act. Incredible.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 31 May 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
But will NSA and McConnell get some of what they want in 2 days, even if the Senate approves the House version (where private phone companies are expected to maintain the data for the NSA)?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 June 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
looks mostly like rearranging the furniture in sum
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/31/zombie-patriot-act-will-keep-u-s-spying-even-if-the-original-dies.html
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
yup
there's no way the spy agencies just stop, even if they couldn't stretch the interpretation of any law to their ends.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
for that reason i tend to think of the entire surveillance apparatus as essentially treasonous
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure there is a lot of money in gathering and collecting this information, not just on the NSA side but for the content providers as well. We'll be subsidizing some form of Verizon's customer database for permanent from now on.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
no kidding.. thats the whole thrust of the new Hooray Freedom Act(tm). basically outsource the data hosting to third parties who will charge a hefty fucking fee for the privilege. and the metadata (lol yeah right only that) of every call in the world is probably quite a bit of data to store..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 1 June 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
as usual Charlie Savage is indispensable:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/a-gap-in-surveillance-but-ways-around-it.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
i feel like if the US gov ever tried to use NSA data to blackmail a US activist, and said activist told the NYT, that would be a huge story - even w/ prolific data collection, isn't a free press always the best bulwark against the abuse of that information?
― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
it's way more likely that the story would appear in The Guardian first
― DJP, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Mordy's friend Greenwald would write it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
wherever, the west doesn't lack for media who would love to run that kind of blockbuster story.
― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link