E. Michael Harrington

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Tom DeLay has crushed me again. How can he deny us the pleasure of watching him lose his seat in the House of Representatives? It was bad enough when his mug shot was the biggest smile of his life, and now this! No DeLay in DC. Damn it - it's a sad day for all of us to the left of Genghis Khan.

This reminds me of the sad time when Robert Livingston, one of those VERY MORAL AND ETHICAL House Managers in the Clinton Impeachment circus, resigned because of his marital infidelities. Judge not..... how does that saying go?

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/19/livingston.quits/

I'll miss Tom DeLay. I love caricatures, comedy, parody, nastiness, and mean spirited pest exterminators. Like Barbra Streisand, I hope he comes back many times for farewell tours.

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Cynthia McKinney is one obnoxious arrogant woman who is invoking the race card without any merit. She is not as famous, well known and photogenic as she would like to believe - she is "not all that." A white male security person on the Capitol did not recognize this not-famous black female representative and she cannot live with that. It is just too undignified and disrespectful for this $158,000 +/year representative to have to pause and show her ID. And it's also a blatant example of racial profiling, or so this been-there-too-long member of the privileged class would have us believe.

It is a damn shame that she should recklessly and disingenuously use racial profiling and accusations of racism - real problems that happen to real people each day - in this way. I feel sorry for the constituents in her district who have elected her. Hopefully they can do much better next time.

Here is her statement on the incident. Of course she "deeply regret[s] that the incident occured," and of course that sly statement does not hint that she did anything wrong. But her wording earlier in the statement - that "most Members of Congress" are known by "Capitol Hill Police officers" is problematic. Yes, most Capitol Hill Police officers know who the 535 priviliged are but not all do. She needs to "get over heself."

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ga04_mckinney/incidentstmt.html

I like her smile in this photo. It's a shame she has to go further and talk and walk and work for the government.

http://www.house.gov/mckinney/

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NATO, the movie theater trade group (http://www.natoonline.org/), is having one very bad year. They are knowing the fear of the future that their cohorts in the recording industry have known since 1998. They too will live in fear. But unlike the RIAA, they will probably not be able to hire as many lawyers and sue as incessantly. Their fight to prevent the future will be somewhat marred by fewer resources.

The future is here and movies are being made available - via download (legally and the old fashioned pirated way) - as soon as they are released. No longer will we have to watch movies in places with bad overpriced "food," cell phone users and sick people perpetrating airborne sicknesses. YEA! Cheney NATO.

Movie theaters - NATO - will have to improve in order to not lose too much of their business. As long as there are people to love and people to avoid there will be theaters as places of potential love and escape from people we need to avoid. These are good times.

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GOD's TEAM wins

The BOSTON RED SOX were wonderful in yesterday's game in Texas. Schilling is the old, pre-2005 Schilling, and Coco Crisp in much younger and better than Johnny Damon.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/04/04/jump_start/

To be continued...

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