Daily Topics - Tuesday May 24th, 2011
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Hour One: Is there a civil war in the GOP? Dr. Charles Dunn, Regent University
Hour Two: New date for the rapture...? / Plus, has Glenn Beck become a doomsday profit?
Hour Three: "Manufacturing decline puts economic/national security at risk" - President Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
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#2
Republican Ticket 2012
Loving the discussion of potential Republican candidates on today's show, and I couldn't help but get excited by the possible ticket of Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty if for no other reason than the cool political yard signs:
MITTIM 2012
Though it is hard to imagine 40+ year old Republican males not getting excited about displaying a "Huntsman" sign in their yard or on their car.
#3
Dennis K lived in Washington after losing the mayor of cleveland. His friendship with Shirley McClain brought him to Washington. Had the pleasure of flying with his some number of years ago. he had been my councilman when i lived in cleveland. He told of spending time around Mt. Rainier, a time of reflection. He knows the PacNW.
#4
No, she is still a victim, just twice over. It is our system of justice that becomes the whore because it is exposed that if a person has enough money they can now afford to rape.
#5
They should make fines in court proportional to wealth.
#6
I agree with Snowflakes. From what I've heard, rape trials are like going thru it all over again and usually it does NOT end in prosecution.
As to the last caller's comment that rapists should be castrated, I would like to ask what is to be done with females who lie? Mutilate her genitally? Of course not. So no, I wouldn't castrate men. Wouldn't that fall under "cruel and unusual punishment"?
#7
Flashback: Jeremy Giefer, accused child molester, got Pawlenty pardon to open childcare center
Jeremy Giefer served time in jail in 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the record of the man now charged with sexually molesting his daughter more than 250 times over the last eight years.
That’s because two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Attorney General Lori Swanson, and then-Chief Justice Eric Magnuson unanimously voted to wipe Giefer’s record clean, granting him a pardon extraordinary.
One reason Giefer wanted his record cleared? His wife wanted to open a childcare center in the house where they live–the same house where Giefer allegedly molested his young daughter throughout the six years prior. [...]
If Pawlenty’s political opponents want fodder for an attack ad when the campaign gets dirty, they couldn’t ask for much better than the story about how he voted to clear the record of a sex offender now charged with habitually raping his own daughter.
What could possibly go wrong? January 6, 2011, City Pages:
Susan Giefer has been issued a citation for helping her husband contact the teenage daughter he is accused of raping hundreds of times over the past seven years. [...]
This isn’t the only time Susan Giefer has been implicated in her husband’s efforts to contact his daughter: The Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Department recorded a telephone call between Giefer and his wife when Giefer was in jail in which Giefer again sought to make contact with his daughter, again through a third party. [...]
Giefer is a free man again, for the moment, after posting an additional $100,000 in bail on Monday.
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