Bride of Rove

Last October I posted on Monique Acevedo’s case in Key West. The verdict is in and Ms. Acevedo, who looks like she’s gained about 100 pounds in one year unfortunately, has been sentenced to eight years in jail.

Wife of ex-Florida Keys schools chief gets 8 years for theft

Acevedo, 42, was immediately taken into custody at the Freeman Justice Center in Key West. She has 30 days to appeal.

Public defender Patrica Docherty argued for leniency for Acevedo, citing an undetected bipolar disorder that was exacerbated by an addiction to oxycontin that began after hospitalization for a bacterial infection in 2006. Docherty said the mental illness was an “explanation and not an excuse” for the once outstanding employee “falling so hard so fast and hurting so many people.”

Docherty requested that Jones sentence Acevedo, a mother of three, to house arrest and restitution. Several members of Acevedo’s family pleaded for mercy.

But Jones didn’t buy that Acevedo’s mental illness made it impossible for her to know what she was doing was wrong. He said he could find no credible reason to depart from the sentencing score sheet of a minimum of 71 months in jail.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/31/1800795/wife-of-ex-florida-keys-schools.html#ixzz0yDb3cVQw

Seems harsh to me for some reason.

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If it matters – they are Democrats.

In the spirit of celebrating Obama’s newly decorated office, I thought it would be fun to take his five quotes (scariest being “The Welfare of Each of Us is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us” — President Theodore Roosevelt) and provide my favorite five. I debated what quotes I would want around the perimeter of my office to inspire me and came up with the following:

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed.” ~ Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead

“No good deed goes unpunished.” ~ Clare Boothe Luce

“Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies”. ~ Ogden Nash

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

If I had a style, tans and browns would not be it. Not into stripes either, actually. I like the yellows and pale colors of the previous style but if I could do my own office any way I liked it would be shades of leaf greens, blues, coral, off white and NO DRAPES. Mahogany slats or free standing silk screens. The carpet would go, replaced by saltillo tile. Ceiling and stand fans – wood paddle style.

What would your five inspirational quotes be? Color scheme?

My friend Vicki picked the following:

George Washington: “Liberty,… when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

Thomas Jefferson: “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

Grover Cleveland: “It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.”

Gerald Ford: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

Love those last two … the Ogden Nash quote is actually quite deep if you think about it.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

“Huffington Post Offers $100,000 for Sex Tapes, Phone Records to Destroy Glenn Beck”

Ahahahahahahahahahaha!! They have hit rock bottom and are starting to dig.

Editor’s Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn’t meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site.

Holy cow I think my brain just lifted out of my skull and did a three quarter flip with a twist. *wiping tears* That is frick’n HILLARIOUS! “editorial standards” … ya’ll are killing me here … stop it.

*Time passes*

*Reading further*

Awwwwww. He’s sawwy! Thas so keuuuuttteee. Who’s a sad sad little muckraker? Beau is.

I was actually trying to mimic what I saw as the way right wingers go about these matters, and by misapprehending the way they do things, I went too far. (I offered to broker a deal for anyone who had damaging media pertaining to Glenn Beck.)

Ignoring the fact that Beau can never match the mad, bad and dangerous to know hotness that is Breitbart, there is an AWESOME difference (sorry Oliscourge) between offering a $100k of your own money to force liars to put up or shut up and offering $100k of someone else’s money for DIRT ON SOMEONE to shut them down. That whole moral compass thing, man, trips them up every time.

Lame apology. Forgiveness denied. He only posted that to save his own ass. As a writer who could twist your mind into a pretzel should she so desire (but chooses to use her gift for good rather than evil) I recognize the BS when I see it. He is sorry he got caught. He never saw a line. He doesn’t know what the line is or where it lives and doesn’t care. And. I promise you. He hates Beck even more now, than he did when he wrote the original article.

Two Quotes just after the Obama election:

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

“…we have an imperative to take advantage of a historic opportunity to break the conservative movement’s backs and crush their spirits.”

Glen Greenwald – Salon

” The most important aspect of this Tuesday’s election is to finalize their humiliating repudiation and to bury them for what they’ve done.”

Just a reminder … To them I say, “Right back at you, babe. We are coming for you in November.”

OK. I’m over my snit. In other news, it looks like Drudge agrees with the rest of us that Obama is not coming off well in the photo wars.

If you don’t have Sirius you probably don’t even know who he is but his show is on Patriot in the morning. The first time he said this I figured he was just generalizing and I was being too literal. The second time he said it I turned the show off because my blood pressure topped out and I thought then that I should just listen to NPR or something until Beck comes on. This morning there was no doubt he said it and he means what he says.

Mr. Church,

BoR

Unbelievable. He was ranting this morning about dismantling the entire Federal Government because his tax money should not go to pay the salaries of ANYONE in it. He specifically singled out the military and the “Feds” which clearly meant law enforcement. He called them “parasites and leeches”. I’m debating cancelling my Sirius subscription because everything else I can get on iHeartRadio. Church is nuts. He is an anarchist lunatic. He definitely doesn’t belong on the Patriot channel. If there is a nihlist channel, move him over there.

A thousand sleepless nights after days where the engines on his plane caught fire , days where he came back with bullet holes riddled through the body and wings of the plane, the car chases, the sniper duty, the rescues, almost 100 successful cases where drugs were kept from our shores, terrorists were stopped at sea, illegal aliens and drug smugglers were caught and successfully prosecuted, the DEATH THREATS TO MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, loved family pets murdered and left on my lawn as a warning by bad bad men to my husband to stop working and here is CHURCH saying the same damned thing as the drug cartels. Stop working? Quit to save you some precious money? Do you have any IDEA what nightmares men like my husband in Customs, my brother in law and nephews in the Army and Marines, and all of my extended family have protected your sorry ass from because they DON’T quit? Shove your pitiful tax payment up your ass, Church. You would not last one day living MY life much less doing what my husband does for far less than what YOU probably pull in.

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Sorry for that rant. He just really pisses me off.

Olioscourge is revealing 40 things you might not know about him. The UFO, TM and shoe items fascinate me. I shall share one thing you may not know about me and the picture here is evidence. I “flocked” the HGTV Dream Home here in Islamorada before the prize was awarded. They were actually very nice about it, because I did it for charity. The honest truth is, I did it because the traffic jams were pissing me off. Supporting the local Hospice was an added benefit. Yeah. Revenge. Feels good sometimes ;-)

Washington Rebel is at the Beck Rally with my crush from The Other McCain, Smitty. Someday, if I ever become a real blogger, my first goal will be to do lunch with Smitty. I like Beck, but I prefer the musings of Smitty on quiet afternoons. From Washington Rebel:

This, boys and girls, is what we are about today. It is no longer sitting on the couch with a bag of Fritos and bean dip, this is the necessary foot soldiery that is needed. I will be honored to join many, many others who feel as I do. Not that one has to wave a flag, or carry a sign, or force oneself onto the TV screen in order to do good, sometimes doing good is just not being afraid, or if afraid, overcoming that fear to stand with the others and take what comes.

Well ok then. As I suspected. This weekend is not so much about what’s on stage, or Beck. For most people, it’s about getting together with everyone else in the country to do a body count of who’s left that’s still sane and lucid. I left lucid behind long ago and I just cannot do crowds. Last crowd I did was 250,000 people at a NASCAR race and it nearly unglued my brain from my skull. Can’t.do.it. You can watch it all on Beck’s Facebook page.

Villanous Company delves into whether women should vote or not … and stuff.

My problem with utopian schemes is that I’ve never met a person who was wise or disinterested enough to decide who “deserves” the vote. The notion that any commonly shared experience so ennobles fallible human beings that it would ensure a wise and disinterested electorate strikes me as naive at best.

The very act of voting is self-serving. Disinterested people are not “selfless” they are disengaged and intellectually bankrupt so – no – it’s not possible to find wise, disinterested people to rule us unless we choose extinction by ennui. People will always gravitate toward their own self-interest unless morally moved to do otherwise and even then self-interest is the underlying motivator. It’s human nature. Expecting women to control a vote the way – say – liberals do or conservatives … pointing to an election and saying “Women voted this person in” … it doesn’t happen often because women vote as humans not “as women”, generally, and as human beings, all the big issues apply equally to men and women and other.

Pat is hammering on Crist. Is he still running? The man knows no shame, I swear.

So Charlie Crist would have us believe that he “misspoke” when he said he’d have voted FOR Obamacare. What he really meant, he says now, is that he would have voted against it because it’s too big and it cuts Medicare Advantage. That was probably AFTER his handlers reminded him that lots of voters in Florida rely on Medicare Advantage and might think poorly of his position. Oops.

I hope he keeps on talking. He is his own worst enemy.

Pundit & Pundette did an excellent round-up yesterday.

Favorite quote for today:

“He’s no liar. And anyone who says he is — including himself — is a liar.” ~ Patterico

Levi is such a complete douche I swear. There’s no coming back for that kid. He’s burned every possible bridge and then burried the ashes at sea.

Rattler Gator posted a cartoon that finally got a laugh out of me this week. It’s been a grim death kind of week. Clinton revenge? Revenge is one of my favorite words, baby. I’m ready for that show if it comes.

Speaking of … WTH is HillBuzz up to? Let’s go see ….

We’re all going to be there in that crowd, so we hope to meet as many of you as possible. We’re getting there super early in the morning, and will be staying all day, so we might not be able to do any updates on what’s going on until we can get back to the hotel and onto our computer

Cool. Another source for Beck rally news.

Not touching Little Miss Attila’s post today on sex. I have no advice for my fellow females in that regard. I’m a romance novelist not a sex therapist and definitely not concerned with anyone elses standards of morality when it comes to sex. If I went down that road I’d have nothing to write about in fiction.

Speaking of sex, Happy One Year Anniversary, Mind Numbed Robot!

I, being he, have met some fine patriotic people online in the blogging community and have come in contact through their writings with many more whom I probably will never have the opportunity to meet. That is no fault of any one, it’s just an observance that the number of conservative bloggers is growing. This is a good thing. I love it.

Ditto, MNR.

No Sheeples Here takes on Sharia Law in America. The very possibility of it scares the crap out of me. It should scare the hell out of everyone, quite frankly. Why doesn’t it? It’s like – let’s say some dirtbag decides to walk into your home and take over your bedroom because he belongs to a culture and religion that says he can and you just sit there and let it happen? Because you are politically correct and don’t want to hurt his feelings or make him feel discriminated against and because the constitution protects freedom of religion? Are you people high? WTH hell has HAPPENED to us as a nation that we let this stuff go on unchecked? The Baptist Church does not get to shut down all wineries and distillers because THEY don’t drink alcohol. At some point someone elses’ “Freedom” is going to step all the hell over YOURS and you need to man the hell up and shove back. That’s not bigotry. That’s SURVIVAL. I’m not subjugating my freedoms so Sharia freaks can be happy and I’m not letting them subjugate the freedom of other women either – unless the other woman is into the whole BDSM – master slave, sadomasochistic relationship experience. Just keep it to yourselves people, k? Don’t mainstream that into our legal system – ever. You are not allowed to kill your daughter just because she pisses you off. THAT law ain’t changing for any religion or culture. Not here.

NSH has me all riled up now. I need more coffee.

I agree with Adrienne. That is SUCH an unfortunate photo. Just one humiliation after another. While Putin has many photos done, tranq’ing tigers and taking skin samples from whales, our President is … ugh.

Time to clean out the office and weed the back yard. I need some home maintenance therapy today.