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Will this appear in Ark. Dem-Gaz?

From NY Times:

Gov. Jon S. Corzine apologized to New Jersey residents Monday as he left the hospital 18 days after a devastating car crash in which he was not wearing a seat belt and was riding in a car traveling at more than 91 miles an hour on the Garden State Parkway.

“I set a very bad example,” said a contrite Mr. Corzine, who broke his left femur and 11 ribs in the accident, [was] speaking from a wheelchair just outside Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J.

Corzine apparently doesn't know that it is editorializing to suggest that failure to wear a seat belt can contribute to injuries and death. My editing shows D-G copy editors where to begin the cuts to make this story conform to Griffin Smith's orders.

UPDATE: The earth moves. In a brief In the News item in the D-G, Corzine is quoted as apologizing for not wearing a seat belt.

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and apparently Corzine made another entry into the "how politically tone-deaf can you possibly be" sweepstakes on the way home from the hospital (speeding convoy AGAIN)

sheesh

The Griffinator also has a thing about the propriety of giving handicapped folks parking preferences, so any references to Corzine using a handicapped parking space during his recovery may also be excised.

Hopefully no one is involved in a car accident during the 50th anniversary of Central High desegregation ceremony and the car smashes into a handicapped parking place due to a defective seat belt.

Woe to the Dem-Gaz reporter who had to write THAT story, because all the Griffinator's alternate realities (Faubus called out the troops to preserve "peace...and good order," seat belts don't save lives, handicapped parking is bad) would simultaneously come into play.

"US naval commander Harlan Ullman was a "regular customer" whom she needs to subpoena.

With James Wade, Ullman developed the military doctrine of "shock and awe" used by US government in its invasion of Iraq."

In the non-nappy headed ho department, the 2nd Bushie name has appeared from the madam's little black book. Will we find out that the father of "shock and awe" in Iraq Ullman was "boring and dull" in the sack?

Wonder if he made the ho wear a burka or did he pay her to pretend she was Lindy England and bark at his genitals? Republicans are so freakin twisted....don't you think?

"Corzine apparently doesn't
know that it is editorializing to
suggest that failure to wear a
seat belt can contribute to
injuries and death."

If there are reputable studies that show wearing seat belts saves lives, it's not editorializing; it's just reporting the facts.

Seems like reporting the facts is a goal the DG should aspire to.

>>Republicans are so freakin twisted....don't you think?<<

Well, why be so kind to them? After the Utah-Satan-immigrant story Cato posted anything they do or say surprises me.
The ultraconservative fringies have always felt at home in America.
Recall the novel-film Dr. Strangelove had an Air Force general who believed commies were sapping our bodies with alien juices.

Those generals had children and now grandchilden in offices across the land.
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As a fun little diversion, AOL News has compiled a list of what 14 Presidential candidates, including Mike Huckabee, would love to do if they weren't running for President.

I've posted their results on my blue name below, and here:
http://universalspirit.blogspot.com/

So, Huckabee really wants to do the Devil's work with being in a rock band, eh? Oh, the awfulness of it all. He had me fooled all along.

Lwood;

The AF general in Dr. Strangelove was obsessed with the commies "sapping our precious bodily fluids."

But, he would be honored at any CPAC conference as a far sighted hero (if there were any commies around anymore).

As always mrs. rosso is wondering what in the hell this blog thing is like and such and so I posed the question...

Is it editorializing to report whether or not some dumbass wears the belt?

"Are you serious?"

Amen, Brother Rosso.

Tell Mrs Rosso that I said great minds think alike. (Of course, I mean yours and hers; mine is so small it can be brainwashed in a thimble.)

Would it also be editorializing to say someone injured their noggin in a motorcycle wreck because they rode without a helmet? Hell, if it was that sinful to editorialize, Wally Hall wouldn't be able to write nary a word.

Of course it's editorializing. Hussman clearly lives in his own world and believes that by striking facts from a news release before it appears in "his" paper he is somehow controlling our thoughts and opinions.

Surely he knows by now that we can read the unbowdlerized version in any number of sources outside his control "on the Internets".

What doof. The ultimate irony--not wishing anything at all here--would be if his own lifeless head has one day to be extracted from a windshield. What would the demZette report?

Sorry, that last bit was meant for Smith, not Hussman, but what's the difference?

I think he's a man feeling humble to be alive.

>But, he would be honored at any CPAC conference as a far sighted hero<
79%er

Well, they still have Cheney, he's pretty wacked out, and still serving up the kool-aid and defying everyone and defies gravity too. Cheney cut his teeth on StrangeLove generals.
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