Senator Johnson Suffered Stroke
 

US Senator Tim Johnson(D) of South Dakota has suffered a stroke. This could have fairly major implications for the Senate. There is no word on his condition at this time.


http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/13/D8M074S81.html

Rupert,
This is very interesting.
Seems he'll be replaced by a Repub appointee.
Oh well, if they can't win at the polls, there's a way they'll get their power.
And here, all the while, we a thought "democracy" was worth bringing to Iraq.
Maybe we should begin right here in the USA.
Nahhh...too much "shrub" to cover.
Deja vu all over again.
"Let freedom ring!" All others deserve what they've gotten.

I'll post a link about Baker so you'll have a "historical" frame of reference.

Now they no longer think it was a stroke. They are calling it an undisclosed illness.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/13/D8M09O400.html

Thoughts are with him and his family. Hope he pulls through all right. And yes, I feel exactly the same way for the Wyoming Republican senator who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. May they all be able to fulfill their terms in good health.

Now they say that he had surgery.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...src=rss&rpc=22

What's f'd up is a Dem being elected in SD- an uber conservative state. It happened a few years ago when Tom Daschle was not only elected, but was also the Senate Minority leader. But he was ousted out of office in '04.

So I wish the best for this guy, but it was a miracle that he got elected in the first place due to where he's based out of- even with the current administration's many blunders.

He's had a long history in SD politics-- first elected to the Senate in '96, and a Rep for 10 years before that. Never underestimate the power of the incumbent.

And you guys wonder why I view the media as scum huh?
Heres a good person with an impeccable record of dignity(yeah hes a dem and Im a repub butthat makes no difference) and all we read about or hear as the poor guy battles for his life is how it may affect the power in the Senate. This is just awful.

I pretty much feel the same way. The guy is fighting for his life and all anyone cares about is the balance of power in the Senate. Pretty pathetic world we live in.

i halfway agree. in most articles I've read about it, the balance of the Senate is not the main focus. I'm not crude enough to be thinking about Senate balance before the Senator's well-being, but....in all honesty though -- play out this scenario.

someone plants a bomb in a small business owner's only business and threatens to blow it up while three of the owner's employees are inside.

does it not change the fact that the business could be blown to pieces? would the owner be "scum" for letting that thought come out of his mouth -- what might happen to my business? Even when people's lives are at stake? I would find that completely normal.

bad news in the present does not negate the reality of the future.

The media as whole is someplace below pond scum in the scheme of things. We are a very sick society.

Hey, Oracle, you might want to give a careful look at your spacing before you post-- it reads "Im a repub butthat"

"Butthat?" thought I, "I haven't read that one before. But it's funny and now I'm going to use it. Much funnier than "Butthead."

Then I realized you meant, "but that."

Nevertheless, I am still adding "butthat" to my list of insults. Hee hee hee hee. Oracle called himself a Repub butthat! Hee hee hee hee.

Oh my goodness, it's fun to be nine years old again... butthat.

Okay. Off to deal with the butthats at the laundromat.

In the meantime, thoughts still with the Senator and his family...

In the interests of continuing to amuse myself with absent spacing, I'll add in two more...

I'm uploading pictures from Argentina to shutterfly and I am not putting spacing in between the words in the names. So, I look at one of them and think, "WTF? Why did I call this one 'meat glacier?'" (meatglacier)

When of course, what it's called is "me at glacier." (meatglacier) Sigh.

And today, someone on a political board said if Senator Johnson would have to give up his seat in the Senate, effectively returning control to the Republicans, that there are those fundamentalists who would call it a mandate from Heaven.

However, due to spacing, what the person wrote was "man date from Heaven." Which is pretty funny, in context of the fundamentalists and all.

whatever happened to him,
Im glad he is not doing well.

there are entirely too many democrats alive already.


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It figures.

Apparently you still haven't grown up.

Update from Bongo:

http://www.bongonews.com/layout1.php?event=2920&topic=

good name for a horse=Repent's Man Date

we will see Repent runners soon.
none will be named that.

speaking of names of horses, what are you ppl going to name the horse that this board decides to buy?
that horse will join smarty jones, island fashion, the tin man, and a few others as horses that I hate.
hope it loses every race.



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