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Even taking the officer, described by MSNBC as a “compassionate man with [a] diligent work ethic,” at his word, all the senator did was stare at him through a crack in the toilet stall, tap his own shoe on the floor, touch the officer’s shoe and pass his hand underneath the stall in what is apparently some time-honored gay mating ritual.
Sandy, being a person of color, ought perhaps be a bit more sensitive about these things, though he manages, adroitly, to keep the comparison isolated to misbehaving Rethuglicans. So he gets a pass.
UPDATE: Red meat. I’m not putting it here, because I don’t want to cause the guy too much trouble. No, really.
I would like to know if there are any other odd rituals that the rest of us should be aware of.
What we need at this point is a Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom special on the fascinating time-honored gay mating ritual of old gay Republican senators from Boise.
I am glad this is a story that is just going to last and last and last. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I can tell you, I’m going to be a lot more cautious at REI . . . especially of those guys who go to the changing room to try on boots.
Whatever happened to representative shoves-a-lot. He said he’s sorry and we’ve moved on?
Education Guy – He got about as much press as the Kennedy kid who got in a mess with the Capitol police, except he did not have to go to rehab.
Dan – Real men do not try on clothes. We just buy things that look like they fit.
I asked about medication for my restless leg syndrome yesterday. I have no desire to get arrested for tapping my foot.
“Jim has now positioned himself next to Closetitus Widestancus or more commonly known as the Hypocritia. We’ll now watch as Jim edges his foot towards the mature specimen. Let’s see if Jim can initiate contact and a statute violation without entrapment…”
I’d guess the next thing to expect is Craig to be exhibit A when Democrats want to explain away low approval ratings for Congress.
I am feeling overly-earnest about this subject. Crap, I hate that. Sententious, humorless…bleh. Ain’t that a kick in the narrow bourgois scruples.
Has anyone noticed that the point of the sting was to change the airport’s Squirt.com rating as “one of the cruisienst places in the city”? A watertight arrest and conviction of any specific cruiser, gained through confession, would be bonus, but the overarching goal was to get the word out that the risk of cruising in the airport was high, and that stall-dates could set them up the bomb…the bomb of arrest, humiliation, exposure.
Men having sex in stalls is lewd conduct. Men soliciting others for sex in stalls is lewd conduct. The negatives that come attached to unchecked lewd contact include, but are not limited to, loss of a public space’s intended usefulness and fear, alarm and/or inconvenience to others, serious breaches of the peace including violent retaliation for unwelcome advances, vandalism and property damage, attraction of other negative behaviours (such as traffic in drugs that men like to use to disinhibit behaviour), hygeine and public health issures.
Finger waggling, even placed into the proper context. may not be enough to sustain conviction. However, consciousness of guilt and applied pressure from interrogation and psychological relief that comes from confession, especially when it is made a palatable alternative, frequently results in confession. Craig revealed in the tape that he was cruising through obvious lying, though not a confession. I think I could have been prevailed upon to convict him. But that’s mostly irrelevent. Multiply what happened to him – He was served!- scared, humiliated, photographed, fingerprinted – over serveral “daters” —-it loses its five-star Squirt.org rating, and behaviours that had become nuisance go away or become so discreet as to effectively check the nuisance, even if the behaviour is not entirely eliminated.
Craig’s fear of exposure led him to plea, after some weeks reflection, in order to keep the event as quiet as possible and to conceal it not just from widespread publication, but from family and intimate friends as well. It was a very calculated choice, one that reflects poorly on his character.
Which is the issue as regards Craig. He has unhealthy cravings for unhealthy sex that he cannot or will not control, and is selfish and reckless for indulging in it, and he is desperate to conceal it. He has been given unusual authority and power, which is now subject to being abused through blackmail or temptation to use his power to control others in an attempt to conceal his vice from widespread publication.
Why anyone thinks this situation should be viewed in isolation or in the light most favorable to him, does not think the same way I do about the standards of propriety a Senator needs to uphold. Don’t decieve yourselves, he does this, he’s been doing it a long time, it’s wrong in itself, its unacceptable in anyone but most particularly a Senator. He’s not a poolboy, a hairdresser, or a salesclerk. He’s a Senator. He has to be more in charge of himself than that. He’s proven he’s a fool, a self-deluded fool, a very selfish self-deluded fool, who wishes to fool you. I don’t wish any other evil to befall him, though, than that he lose his authority to govern others. I hope he has a nice rest and his family will love him, and that he comes to learn more about himself and his duties to others.
Mind-reading, or do you have some statement from Craig to that effect?
But.. But… Arlen Specter thinks he’s peaches.
I can haz Peechez?
Prof. Caric has a post about the possibility of President Bush ordering Sen. Craig’s assassination, since the press is overshadowing his PR blitz for Gen. Petraeus’ report.
I’ve just read Matt Sanchez brilliant take on this.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/09/taliban_of_tolerance_by_matt_s.php
I think he’s right. Gays should not be trying to legitimise restroom sex – it’s revolting and unseemly.
Yeah. Craig’s getting bumped would certainly quiet the press’s yammering. What a moron.
Bush and Cheney sure are busy. Between assassinating sitting disgraced senators, planning the destruction of freeways, altering intelligence reports, outing secret agents, reaping windfall Iraqi oil profits, shredding the Constitution and reprogramming voting machines one wonders how they even have the time to sleep.
They must surf the energy wave of Divine Imperialism!
Nah, they run on the power of pure evil. Which, those in the know are aware, is manufactured by grinding the souls of (Iraqi) orphans into a fine powder which is then ingested by snorting.
The telltale sign of such a practice is how one pronounces nuclear. Users often have a propensity to steal elections from disenfranchised minorities
EG, I think that you are on to something! I seem to remember an article about this particular condition that mentioned an overwhelming urge to use century busting storms to achieve racial cleansing in cities built below sea level on drained wetlands.
But my memory is not what it used to be and Google can’t seem to find it…
Ok, lets go on the record right here….one of you queers stares at me while I’m taking a dump and I’m putting these stiletto heels to good use.
“Mind-reading, or do you have some statement from Craig to that effect?”
What would it take to get you to cop to such a charge if it were false? He did not react with the outrage of a falsely accused man.
Reacting with outrage toward a cop is not wise behavior. Not to defend this idiot, but the only thing to do is to shut up and lawyer up.
Don’t take my word for it. Ask Martha Stewart or Scooter Libby.
I really want to know if there are any other mating calls or mating rituals that we should be aware of.
I’m curious.
What would it mean if I peed over the stall?
I can you know…
I’ve read somewhere that lolcatspeak is one of them. NTTAWWT.
BJ – Morning wood enables one to pee on the ceiling, if you are so inclined.
“Stupid” and “guilty” may overlap, but they’re not synonymous.
I present “stupid” as a possibility, only. There are others.
That was me, by the way. Can I haz peechez?
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“I present “stupid†as a possibility, only. There are others.”
Stupidity might explain why he would mistake being falsely charged with being entrapped, but I seriously doubt it.
Um, I’m guessing Craig had a lawyer when he entered his guilty plea. Stupid or not.
What did he plead guilty to, again?
There’s a two-second rule for man hugs. Anything beyond the briefest chest bump and a single clap on the back is definitively most-gay.
I’ve also heard triple piercing one’s ball-sac is some sort of Queerist signifier. Think about it; if you feel so strong a need to accessorize your manhood that you trip-pierce your ball-sac and, additionally, say, jam a feather in your pee hole – that’s a clue, a marker, a statist reference point for something to someone, somewhere, seems to me.
He plead guilty to disorderly conduct, Slart.
What did he plead guilty to, again?
You are sure mad on the factz, slart. Ont!
“I’ve read somewhere that lolcatspeak is one of them. NTTAWWT.”
U iz on the Down Low?
He plead guilty to disorderly conduct, Slart.
I see. Actually, I knew that. I was seeing if we were all speaking the same language, and operating from the same facts, because at least to my way of thinking, pleading guilty to disorderly conduct is in no way traceable to an admission of lewd conduct.
Possibly others disagree, but that’s the Innerwebs.
Slart: Right on the money.
I’m a religious social con and I’m having trouble getting all bent out of shape about this. Democrats protect their own through all levels of aggregious conduct. Foley was doing it on company time with company employees. Out he went and rightly so. Craig’s got issues but I’m still unsure how this rises to a resigning offense. Good gracious Gerry Studds (my representative lo those many years ago) was diddling a 17 year page and he told everyone it was none of their business and turned his back on the chamber when he was censured. It still ranks as one of the most arrogant gestures I have ever seen.
Republicans have turned into a collection of girly men. Man up, ‘thugs!
I’z on teh intarwebs lrnin teh lolbonicz.
Dan – What happened to Caric’s post about Pres. Bush ordering the assassination of Sen. Craig ?
JD:
Is it just me or did a certain weasal law student from Indiana accuse either you of sockpuppeting me or me of sockpuppeting you?
He’s really sliding down the slope into teh crazee.
JD:
The post is still up, hence my question above.
BJ – I try not to read his posts, essentially attempting to utilize the Leftist style of argument. But I think he accused me of sockpuppeting you, or of you sockpuppeting me. If the former, I could only be honored to be compared to you. If the latter, it was a vicious slap in the face to you.
Real men don’t play footsie and tap stalls. If we want some ass, we rape it. Prison yard style.
punks.
Mind-reading, or do you have some statement from Craig to that effect?
It’s a reasonable inference from his pubic statements alone, but moreso in context.
Prof. Caric has a post about the possibility of President Bush ordering Sen. Craig’s assassination, since the press is overshadowing his PR blitz for Gen. Petraeus’ report.
And here I’m thinkin’ it was Hillary ordering Craig’s assassination to deflect attention from the Hsu scandal. I must be losing my grip…
Someone who was intent on being understood might just have supplied a few examples, and possibly even links, just so the person on the other side of the screen would have some notion of what they’re talking about. What you responded with does less than nothing for your argument, though. I mean, it’s ok; it’s just fine that you believe the way you do, but it’s Area 51-grade material without some support in fact, and so completely lacking in sway.
JD:
Dude, you can sockpuppet me anytime.
Unless there is some sexual undertone that I’m missing. If so, nevermind.