Rick Perry Indicted

[TheConfessor]

Sorry for this WGAS non-game show breaking news, but some folks here might care about it.
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/15/ ... authority/

[BackInTex]

In related news Rick Perry has hired Lois Lerner as a consultant to assist in his defense strategy.

[Beebs52]

Not so much wgas. Shall be interesting.

[littlebeast13]

Well, where is Gov Goodhair to offer his side of the story? I must send the Pigladillo to fetch her.... er, him!

lb13

[ghostjmf]

tired of not "getting it" vis a vis in-joke refs here, I googled "Pigladillo". I got Unhelpful Google telling me I must mean "picadillo" & sending me to many picadillo recipes. I told it "nope, I mean Pigladillo" & I got sent to lb's blog.


You know, that place where you'd think lb is a decent person, as well as a crazed cartooner, if you didn't know better by how he treats you here. Blogs are great for that; nobody blogs what a jerk they are. Well, hardly anybody; I'm sure there are a few political blogs that do just that.


So congrats lb, you are now someone google officially sends searchers to, though only if they insist they don't want all those nice picadillo recipes. And you have at least one ref from another blog, or something.


For people who don't want to go this route, Pigladillo is Piglet from Winnie-The-Pooh reimagined as an armadillo. According to google, lb isn't the only entity who has had this thought (though apparently the only one who has drawn it).

As for Perry; be interesting if this actually sticks. The agency bringing the charges apparently thinks it will.


By the way, picadillo is great stuff. And one of the few Mexican recipes that doesn't have pork or lard (which I don't eat, though I admit I don't ask anymore about tamales, not wanting to know; they all have lard, apparently) in it. To bring us back to Piglet.


Woops, its not Mexican. Its Brazillian, Cuban, all sorts of places lay claim to it, but not Mexico. Oh well. Now I'm trying to remember the name of that picadillo-like stuff that is Mexican.


Nope, Wikishmoozia says it is Mexican too, after all. But it has a diff name at my local fav restaurant. I'm too lazy to look up the name. Right this minute, that is.

[littlebeast13]

tired of not "getting it" vis a vis in-joke refs here, I googled "Pigladillo". I got Unhelpful Google telling me I must mean "picadillo" & sending me to many picadillo recipes. I told it "nope, I mean Pigladillo" & I got sent to lb's blog.


You know, that place where you'd think lb is a decent person, as well as a crazed cartooner, if you didn't know better by how he treats you here. Blogs are great for that; nobody blogs what a jerk they are. Well, hardly anybody; I'm sure there are a few political blogs that do just that.


So congrats lb, you are now someone google officially sends searchers to, though only if they insist they don't want all those nice picadillo recipes. And you have at least one ref from another blog, or something.


For people who don't want to go this route, Pigladillo is Piglet from Winnie-The-Pooh reimagined as an armadillo. According to google, lb isn't the only entity who has had this thought (though apparently the only one who has drawn it).

As for Perry; be interesting if this actually sticks. The agency bringing the charges apparently thinks it will.


By the way, picadillo is great stuff. And one of the few Mexican recipes that doesn't have pork or lard (which I don't eat, though I admit I don't ask anymore about tamales, not wanting to know; they all have lard, apparently) in it. To bring us back to Piglet.

Woops, its not Mexican. Its Brazillian, Cuban, all sorts of places lay claim to it, but not Mexico. Oh well. Now I'm trying to remember the name of that picadillo-like stuff that is Mexican.

Thank you, once again, for making my day with what has to be one of the most ironic posts ever on this Bored!

And Saucy is gonna be soooooo pissed at you for trying to discredit her naming Pigladillo....

lb13

[ghostjmf]

I saw nothing referring to Saucy in your blogstuff google gave me. Apologies to Saucy, then; should you be putting "inspired by Saucy" every place Pigladillo appears?


I would also say you need to look up "ironic", but you probably have & have decided to keep going with whatever your definition is.

[Estonut]

tired of not "getting it" vis a vis in-joke refs here, I googled "Pigladillo". I got Unhelpful Google telling me I must mean "picadillo" & sending me to many picadillo recipes. I told it "nope, I mean Pigladillo" & I got sent to lb's blog.

If you're looking up a Bored reference, you're better off using the Bored's search feature. it returns 66 (now 67) hits for "Pigladillo." Go to the oldest, and you'll see where it started.

[littlebeast13]

I saw nothing referring to Saucy in your blogstuff google gave me. Apologies to Saucy, than; should you be putting "inspired by Saucy" every place Pigladillo appears?


I would also say you need to look up "ironic", but you probably have & have decided to keep going with whatever your definition is.

You must have me confused with Alanis Morissette. But just to satisy you, I'll look it up...

i·ron·ic
īˈränik/
adjective
adjective: ironic

using or characterized by irony.

Well, that's kind of a duh. Oh wait, here's a non-redundant definition:

happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this.

Example: The poster called into question the decency of another poster in the same post in which she took an unprovoked and unwarrented cheap shot at him.

There... I think we've both learned something now! Too bad you didn't bother to actually click on any of the links to my blog that Google so kindly provided for you... and I know you didn't because my blog keeps me informed of traffic directed to it from search engines. There were no visits yesterday from anyone using the search term "pigladillo" or even "picadillo"... nor was there a single solitary view from any source on my Pigladillo page that would have told you the whole story behind the what, when and why of the creature that you have somehow apparently never noticed on this Bored... and who knows, you may have even figured out to WHOM my original comment was addressed that you decided to take offense to since I posted it and therefor it must either be some veiled nasty reference to you, or just something super duper secret me and my "clique" have been hiding from you in full view of the whole fucking Bored for the past year and a half. Oh, and I'd also guess it's pretty obvious you didn't visit my blog since you think I act like a decent person over there.... boy is that joke on you!

As for Saucy... I kinda think she'd rather not be mentioned by name on my blog anymore than you would like me to mention you over there. I mean, I could say "Saucy inspired the name"... but who's gonna get that other than the people who also post here.... assuming they've paid enough attention to know that Saucy is a1mamacat, which you may or may not have figured out yet.

Credit where credit is due... I thought the Google hit where someone had compared Piglet to an armadillo two years before Pigladillo came into existence was hilarious, and means I must be doing something right if my armadillo drawing bore a resemblance to him to warrant Saucy's initial confusion...

And again, thanks for the laugh by taking the time to get your knickers wadded over something that had nothing to do with you again! I really needed it given how fucking fucked up things have been around here in the last week...

lb13

[ghostjmf]

lb:

I'd say your blog tracker isn't working.


I say this because I not only clicked on the link of some person who calls themself by some pig-sounding name, I clicked on the links to your blog itself & got sent to a bunch of cartoons, only one of which had Pigladillo in it.


And I visited your blog a few years ago, or whenever it was that you started it. That's what I drew my assessment from. Maybe its gotten snarkier since, in which case I take my assessment back. I'm too busy doing stuff I hate to have to do but have to to spend a lot of time checking out your blog's progress, or regress, or whatever.


Hmm; perhaps I didn't visit it as ghostjmf but as my other internet login, which you can easily find, being such a detective & all. I don't use it on this group. Don't worry.


Also; Saucy, aka a1mamacat, which she also posts as on this board, go back a long way on this board. So no reinformation is necessary there.

[ghostjmf]

I feel duty-bound, as long as I brought it up earlier, to report that the only local great but cheap enough for me Mexican restaurant calls "tinga" what many may call "picadillo". (I said I was going to look it up, & so I did. On their menu.) Only they make it with chicken, not beef.


Recipe detailists will note that there are ingredients in picadillo that aren't in tinga (capers, for instance) & possibly vice-versa, but believe me the taste is similar.


And me discussing tamales sent me to another local restaurant, which inexplicably has the worse excuse for salsa in this world; seriously, they provide it in little awful packets, but they have $1.50 a la carte tamales, and they're great tamales, as long as you can live with no good sauce for them. So I got 2, but they must have used something in the recipe this time around that made me sick, as I got sick from them. Could be onion mold, though I didn't know you put onion in chicken tamales.


You know how the outer sections of an onion are moldy, but you can peel them off & get down to sections beneath which neither look nor taste moldy? Well, if the mold was on the outer parts of the onion, enough got down into the other sections to make me sick. Its a weird food sensitivity. Food sensitivities aren't allergies, as they don't involve the immune system; they involve your inability to digest something because you don't have the right enzymes or whatever.


And there's no point in asking a restaurant kitchen if they peeled off the bad part of the onion. I guess I could avoid foods with onions in them, but I love foods with onions in them.


I thought I was one of the few people on earth with this particular food sensitivity; then I found out that people with cystic fibrosis get so sick from it (possibly they are developing an immune-system response to this mold) that it can kill them.

[TheConfessor]

I don't know what all this Pigladillo stuff has to do with Rick Perry, but the mainstream media seem to be nearly unanimous in dismissing the indictment as a politically motivated farce. This analysis goes a little deeper. Of course, none of the commentators have actually seen the evidence yet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore ... lp00000592

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Eugene Volokh: Looking for legal defenses of the Rick Perry indictment

Can anyone point me to a fairly detailed legal defense of the Rick Perry indictment, so I can get a better sense of whether my own analysis is sound? I’m looking for defenses that make specific legal arguments explaining why Gov. Perry’s behavior violates the specific statutes mentioned in the indictment — not general explanations of why someone thinks Gov. Perry’s behavior was unsavory or ill-intentioned, or why there ought to be a law against it. If you know of any such defenses, please post links to them in the comments below, or e-mail me a link at volokh at law.ucla.edu.

[BackInTex]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

[TheConfessor]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

[Bob Juch]

A summary of this for those who don't have the time to read the whole news stories:

Rick Perry wanted to put his own choice in charge of the state Public Integrity Unit. For some reason that's overseen by the Travis County District Attorney. Using the excuse that Travis County D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg had been convicted for drunken driving, Perry demanded that she resign or that he'd defund the entire Public Integrity Unit. She didn't, he did.

Of course those of us who don't trust Perry figure that he wanted a friend investigating Texas's public officials.

[Bob Juch]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

Actually the indictment was by the grand jury.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Using the excuse that Travis County D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg had been convicted for drunken driving

Let's cut to the video of Lehmberg's DUI arrest with .238 BA
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65343

[TheConfessor]

Using the excuse that Travis County D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg had been convicted for drunken driving

Let's cut to the video of Lehmberg's DUI arrest with .238 BA
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65343

For better or worse, we elected her. Perry didn't want her investigating him, but it wasn't within his authority to remove her from office. What specific attempts he made to force her out are pure speculation. No one who is talking about it has seen the evidence.

[BackInTex]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

•Although McCrum is being portrayed as a “Republican” by some hack Democrat shills...

[jarnon]

I think this case has even less chance of success than Speaker Boehner's suit against President Obama. The case would be stronger if Perry was trying to oust the D.A. for purely partisan reasons, but the DUI conviction gives him a non-political excuse. But I don't know that much about it. I'd like to hear what TheCalvinator thinks, if he's around.

[TheConfessor]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

Actually the indictment was by the grand jury.

Thanks for the clarification. I was referring to Judge Burt Richardson, who is not the special prosecutor, but he led the grand jury and appointed the special prosecutor. He is currently running as a Republican for a seat on our state's highest court for criminal appeals.
http://judgepedia.org/Bert_Richardson

As an aside, Texas has the equivalent of two supreme courts, one for criminal cases and one for civil cases. One of the current Judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals, Lawrence Meyers, had a safe job but decided to change parties and become a Democrat, then run for a judge seat on the Supreme Court. I have no idea what he was thinking, since it's political suicide to run for any statewide office as a Democrat. The only reason I know anything about it is because Judge Larry was a regular for many years at my usual Wednesday night pub quiz and I got to know him pretty well. He would come in and play on a team with other judges and office staff. I don't think they ever won, but they had a good time.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/12/09 ... tches.html

[Bob Juch]

Democrat County DA indictes Republican governor for politically motivated activities.
Republican State AG indictes Democratic County DA fo politically motivated activities.
Democrat U.S. AG indictes Republican state AG for politically motivated activities.

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

•Although McCrum is being portrayed as a “Republican” by some hack Democrat shills...

Texas judges must come awfully cheap. $500?

[BackInTex]

Nope. Read the article. Perry's indictment was by a Republican special prosecutor from San Antonio. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush.

•Although McCrum is being portrayed as a “Republican” by some hack Democrat shills...

Texas judges must come awfully cheap. $500?

You should know that your money buys more in Texas.

[Bob Juch]

•Although McCrum is being portrayed as a “Republican” by some hack Democrat shills...

Texas judges must come awfully cheap. $500?

You should know that your money buys more in Texas.

Yeah, no income tax.