[stevew]

wu resigns....

seemed like a fun guy......

wish there was a video of the minutemen covering the steely dan song that the title of the thread is taken from.

 

[Silver]

"Unwanted sexual encounter"...where I come from, that sounds like rape.

"Rare is the nation in which an immigrant child can become a national political figure. I thank God and my parents for the privilege of being an American," said Mr Wu in a statement released by his office.

Should have had God clear it with the 18 year old first. Why are Christians so stupid?

The alleged victim in the Wu case, the daughter of a long-time friend and campaign donor, has not been identified.

Now, there's someone who truly got ****ed by their congressman.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I just want to know what she looks like

 

[stevew]

"Unwanted sexual encounter"...where I come from, that sounds like rape.

[tonythetigervoice]unwanted sexual advances.....they're greeeeaaat![/tonythetigervoice]

 

[Silver]

I just want to know what she looks like

Guy in his mid-50s in a tiger suit?

I doubt it mattered too much.

 

[$tinkle]

Should have had God clear it with the 18 year old first. Why are Christians so stupid?

i missed the part where he did it in the name of his god

who knows? maybe he's into having someone dress up like calvin & piss on him from teh roof of his raptor

 

[jimmydean]

He is a very cool dude who did some great things. But he should have kept his hands off the daughter of a donor.

<edit> He is sticking to the concession story.

 

[stevew]

Should have had God clear it with the 18 year old first. Why are Christians so stupid?

he cleared it with his nuns....

 

[$tinkle]

Rep. David Wu could be eligible for $1M in pension, benefits

#winning

 

[stevew]

Rep. David Wu could be eligible for $1M in pension, benefits

#winning

funny how that sh!t never gets cut.

everyone gets a raise this year....just like any other year.

 

[dante]

funny how that sh!t never gets cut.

everyone gets a raise this year....just like any other year.

Funny how that's actually a pittance...

$200k in his 401(k), without saying how much of that *he* put in.
$24k/year till he dies. Wow, that's a MASSIVE pension right there...

24k*25 years (life expectancy) = $600k.

That's about as high a pension as your local school teacher. So let me get this straight: $24k/year = outrageously overpriced employees/retirees, $250k/year = poverty (since that's "barely middle class")?

Give me a break.

 

[$tinkle]

seems you have no problem w/ a public servant being rewarded for their bad behavior, but do have a problem w/ putting it in some sort of inconvenient context -- a wrong that you must make right.

but i guess i will allow you to extend the comparison of unwanted sexual advances to school teachers, too.

that's simply beautiful

 

[stevew]

Funny how that's actually a pittance...

$200k in his 401(k), without saying how much of that *he* put in.
$24k/year till he dies. Wow, that's a MASSIVE pension right there...

24k*25 years (life expectancy) = $600k.

That's about as high a pension as your local school teacher. So let me get this straight: $24k/year = outrageously overpriced employees/retirees, $250k/year = poverty (since that's "barely middle class")?

Give me a break.

you act as though he will never work again.

 

[dante]

you act as though he will never work again.

So we should get rid of all pensions for US Troops, Firefighters, Police, Teachers, etc, since they might "work again" after they put in their time for working for the government? Seriously?

 

[dante]

seems you have no problem w/ a public servant being rewarded for their bad behavior, but do have a problem w/ putting it in some sort of inconvenient context -- a wrong that you must make right.

*yawn*

 

[stevew]

So we should get rid of all pensions for US Troops, Firefighters, Police, Teachers, etc, since they might "work again" after they put in their time for working for the government? Seriously?

where did i say that?

 

[$tinkle]

So we should get rid of all pensions for US Troops, Firefighters, Police, Teachers, etc, since they might "work again" after they put in their time for working for the government? Seriously?

you know what the fallout is from dishonorable discharge, right?

or do you think wu served honorably?

 

[dante]

where did i say that?

You apparently think that $24k/year in pension benefits are too much because of the fact that he could possibly work elsewhere. Well, all of the professions that I listed have pensions that are available after working for a set period of time so technically, any of them could collect a pension *and* work somewhere else. You can retire at 38 and get a military pension... should that be curtailed just because "he could work elsewhere?"

you know what the fallout is from dishonorable discharge, right?

or do you think wu served honorably?

Nowhere near as (dis)honorably as others...

And last I checked, $67k/year while serving a jail term is slightly more outrageous.

 

[jimmydean]

seems you have no problem w/ a public servant being rewarded for their bad behavior, but do have a problem w/ putting it in some sort of inconvenient context -- a wrong that you must make right.

but i guess i will allow you to extend the comparison of unwanted sexual advances to school teachers, too.

that's simply beautiful

Would have been more appropriate had it been a male page?

 

[$tinkle]

Would have been more appropriate had it been debra lafave?