I am moving this weekend…or I was. Some undetected water damage has forced us to remain in our present digs for another week.

No big deal except my DSL was moved to the new unit this afternoon. So that means I will have limited or no access to the internet at home all weekend through next week.

Feel free to open post to this post all weekend and next week.  I will post occassionally as time allows.

**Update:  I have access, via my incredible skills and imagination.  Yes, I am preening.

But I am online afterall.

Peace.

Karl

LSU 

Crosslinked to Samantha Burns

This just struck me as being fairly stupid infighting.

Idaho GOP, Democratic Party Leaders Spar Over Foley Scandal

Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman campaigned in Idaho Thursday for congressional candidate Bill Sali, and defended the actions of his party’s leaders on Capitol Hill in response to the Mark Foley scandal.

"I think that what Congressman Hastert has done, which is the right thing to do, is to take extraordinary steps to deal with an extraordinary situation," he said.

Typical party line and frankly not too outrageous.  The issue was that Stallings had made a criticism for them not condemning Foley.

But a much nastier battle is being fought– on paper.

On Tuesday, Idaho Democratic Chair Richard Stallings criticized GOP Representatives Butch Otter and Mike Simpson for not condemning Foley’s behavior sooner.

But here is where the trouble starts.

"Dick Stallings is desperate," Otter told CBS 2 News during Mehlman’s visit Thursday. "That’s desperation politics when you try to paint everybody with a brush. And you know, if all my candidates stood for what his candidates stand for– I’d be obliged to do the same thing."

On Wednesday, Republicans fired back with a press release titled, "Dick Stallings Owes Otter and Simpson an Apology."

Chairman Kirk Sullivan said the Democrats have "sunk to a new low" by trying to politicize the Foley scandal. He demanded the minority party "retract" their comments from Tuesday.

But that’s not all.

Sullivan and Representative Simpson referred to Stallings as "Dick Stallings" throughout the entire press release– a common nick name for those named Richard.

This prompted yet another stinging press release from Stallings on Wednesday titled, "My name is Richard."

Yep.  He is upset they used a derivative of his name.

Idaho Democratic Party Spokesman Chuck Oxley wrote, "Stallings asks that in the future, Republicans refer to him by his Christian name in their communications with the media."

"My parents named me Richard, and that’s the name I go by," Stallings said. "The least they could do is extend the courtesy of using my given name."

It was alleged, but never proved.  Until now.  Via Hot Air: 

It had always been alleged, but they couldn’t prove it at the time due to the limits of forensic testing.

They can prove it now.

No matter how bad you think they were, they were worse.

The article says:

Tests show that Nazis used human remains to make soap

The Nazis used human fat to make soap during World War II in a Nazi German medical academy located in what is now the Polish Baltic sea port city of Gdansk, Polish war crimes prosecutors confirmed on Friday, pointing to new laboratory tests.

Officials with Poland’s Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) based their findings on a laboratory analysis of a piece of soap found in 1945 in the medical academy in Gdansk run by Nazi German Professor Rudolf Spanner.

A new laboratory analysis of the soap revealed human fat was one of its components, spokesperson for the Gdansk branch of the IPN, Paulina Szumera, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in a telephone interview on Friday.

Commissioned by the IPN, Professor Andrzej Stolyhwo of the Warsaw Agricultural University found human tissue in the soap.

The piece of soap was used as evidence in the post-WWII Nuremburg Trials where prominent German Nazis were prosecuted for crimes against humanity. At the time, prosecutors lacked the technology to determine whether the soap contained human tissue.

I dont know that this proof changes anything. The allegations have lived on for years.  And the Nazi’s were clearly a depraved bunch.

But on the other hand, it never hurts to remember how depraved they really were.