Comments on: Manufacturing a scandal

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:32:38 +0000

Bush haters and the like accusing conservatives of manufacturing scandals? HA HA HA HA! That is so pathetic!

By: James

James — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:25:46 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how many people cite wikipedia as pure fact.

By: DosPeros' Wage Slave

DosPeros' Wage Slave — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:08:05 +0000

The 16 yr. old lasse I employ to do some filing work for me for $6.00 an hour for 10-15 hours a week is going to be let go if and when this thing passes. Sweet girl, but hardly worth what I’m paying here now, let alone 7 or more bucks an hour. Too bad, because she likes her job and she spends her money at the local coffee shop and at the local music shop – two great places. She will probably get a job at McDonalds or, hopefully, at the GAP, although it is going to be more difficult now. And she will be making more money — but she’ll be flipping burgers or hawking clothes rather than being in a professional setting that educates her.

My full-time secretary will get her additional (if minimal) work load. My secretary thanks all you well intentioned people out there for fucking up her ability to leave at 4:30 and said to me yesterday, “Too we all don’t live in American Saoma.” Yes, too bad.

By: Sean Aqui

Sean Aqui — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:47:14 +0000

Jimmy: Sure, and that’s a legitimate point. Although the Samoan exception long predated Pelosi, as well as Del Monte’s ownership of Starkist.

BenG: I hope people won’t seriously become gunshy about saying what they think out of fear that a handful of partisan fools will misrepresent it. That’s the best way to shut down democracy that I can think of.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:19:29 +0000

Still, sean, you've got to admit something smells fishy:

One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force. StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi.

By: BenG

BenG — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:22:16 +0000

Wow, welcome to the wounderful world of extreme partinsanship; like I need to tell you something u don’t already know! I haven’t read the links you provided yet, and I skipped the original post because it just didn’t seem that big of a deal.
I was browsing thru some rt-wing blogs at that time looking for their take on Pelosi n Reid’s first 100 hrs. Unfortunately, I found nothing but obsurd partisan nonsense, but I’m afraid to say that your post was linked on one of the sites to help further their point about how badly the Dems were doing in trying to reform congress.
One worries that this sort of thing might stop reasonable people from uncovering truths because they may be taken out of context or, as in this case, simply distorted for partisan propaganda. Hopefully we’ll soon realize, if the previous election is any harbinger of the upcoming one, that people can think for themselves and see thru all of this.

By: probligo

probligo — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:55:38 +0000

It is at this point that one does have to get concerned at the conflict between all of the “benefits” of the blogiverse on the one hand (access, freedom of speech etc etc) and the rights of the individual to protection from malicious or even accidental untruths.