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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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When Republican Governor Eernie Fletcher appointed Chris Lilly to his state's Alcohol Control Board less than a year ago, the Governor's Web site had unqualified praise for his man:| “Chris Lilly brings a wealth of regulatory experience to the ABC,” said EPPC Secretary Teresa J. Hill. “He has a long record of commitment to public service, and I know he will continue that commitment at the ABC.” |
But Lilly was pulled over and arrested for DUI Saturday:The executive director of the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control faces a drunken driving charge after he was arrested during a traffic stop.
Chris Lilly was pulled over Saturday on U.S. 27 outside Nicholasville because his Ford Explorer was missing a headlight, and because he was weaving and driving slowly, police said. |
In Kentucky, "Alcohol Control" means not spilling your drink.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/24/2007 09:10:58
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 09:35:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
When Republican Governor Eernie Fletcher appointed Chris Lilly to his state's Alcohol Control Board less than a year ago, the Governor's Web site had unqualified praise for his man:| “Chris Lilly brings a wealth of regulatory experience to the ABC,” said EPPC Secretary Teresa J. Hill. “He has a long record of commitment to public service, and I know he will continue that commitment at the ABC.” |
But Lilly was pulled over and arrested for DUI Saturday:The executive director of the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control faces a drunken driving charge after he was arrested during a traffic stop.
Chris Lilly was pulled over Saturday on U.S. 27 outside Nicholasville because his Ford Explorer was missing a headlight, and because he was weaving and driving slowly, police said. |
In Kentucky, "Alcohol Control" means not spilling your drink.
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Sorta gives a new meaning to: "Shake the dew off the Lilly." doesn't it?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 09:45:45 [Permalink]
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Good one, Fil! Anyway, how's anyone going to "control" anything as fine as Kentucky bourbon whiskey?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/24/2007 : 12:26:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Good one, Fil! Anyway, how's anyone going to "control" anything as fine as Kentucky bourbon whiskey?
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Indeed. It's even better than the stuff I make....
But really, this Lilly wanker is not at all as interesting as his boss.
Begin hijack: On June 9, 2004, while en route to memorial services for former president Ronald Reagan, the governor's plane inadvertently caused a security scare and was nearly shot down by the U.S. Air Force. It caused the Capitol to be evacuated, because the transponder of the plane failed while in restricted airspace. The security scare happened just moments before the plane with Reagan's body touched down at Andrews Air Force Base.
Fletcher had low approval ratings for much of his first year in office. Most controversy focused on increasing costs of health insurance for state employees.
However, during his second year in office, Fletcher achieved the passage of a comprehensive tax reform package. The passage of tax reform was one of Fletcher's key campaign pledges. By March 2005, Fletcher's approval rating reached 52 percent, according to a Louisville Courier-Journal poll; a Survey USA poll around the same time found his approval rating below 40 percent and lower than that of every other governor in the nation at the time save for two.
After Fletcher issued pardons to members of his administration for violations of state merit system laws in mid-2005 (see next section), polls indicated his approval rating had decreased even more. Fewer than 20 percent of respondents said that they planned to vote to re-elect Fletcher in 2007, and 73 percent disapproved of the pardons Fletcher issued for members of his administration. A Courier-Journal poll released in mid-September found Fletcher's approval rating at 38 percent, tying the low rating previously reached by his predecessor Paul E. Patton.[2] Another poll released by SurveyUSA in February 2006 found his approval rating at 35%, with 57% disapproving.
On September 12, 2007 Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo sued Fletcher for appointing too many Republicans to the governing bodies of state universities. State law requires "proportional representation of the two leading political parties" based on voter registration. A majority of registered voters in Kentucky are democrats, but Fletcher has appointed seven Republicans and two Democrats to the University of Kentucky and eight Republicans and two Democrats to the University of Louisville.[3]
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Continue hijack: On June 14, 2005, a special grand jury that was impaneled by the Attorney General in Franklin County handed down indictments of three Transportation Cabinet officials: Acting Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert, Deputy Secretary Jim Adams and administrative services commissioner Dan Druen.[7] On July 7, 2005, more indictments were handed down including Fletcher's deputy chief of staff.[8} On July 11, 2005, the grand jury struck closer to the Governor's mansion as three more indictments were handed down: against state Republican Party chairman Darrell Brock Jr., who was also the former commissioner of the Governor's Office for Local Development; Basil Turbyfill, the Governor's personnel adviser, and deputy personnel secretary; and Bob Wilson, deputy personnel secretary.
On August 29, 2005, Fletcher announced he had granted blanket criminal pardons to nine administration officials, including deputy chief of staff Richard Murgatroyd, who were or might have been indicted by the grand jury in this case (he did not pardon himself). On August 30, Fletcher invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination before the grand jury and refused to testify.
On September 14, 2005, Fletcher fired[9] nine employees, including four of the nine he pardoned two weeks earlier.[10] Fletcher called for the firing of state Republican Party chair Darrell Brock, Jr. due to Brock's role in the merit scandal. On September 17 GOP leaders voted to retain Brock as state party leader.
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And yet the highest jack: Views on teaching intelligent design and scientific creationism
In 2005 members of the Kentucky Academy of Science voted unanimously to oppose any attempt by legislative bodies to mandate specific content of science courses, and specifically to attempts to equate scientific creationism or intelligent design as scientific theories equal, or superior to, evolution.[22]
In response, in a February 13, 2006 letter to the Kentucky Academy of Science, Fletcher, an outspoken intelligent design advocate,[23][24] argues that evolution conflicts with the Declaration of Independence.
"My educational background provided me with thorough understanding of science and the theory of evolution. Our nation, however, was founded on self-evident truths. Among these truths are inalienable rights 'endowed by their Creator.' From my perspective, it is not a matter of faith, or religion, or theory. It is similar to basic self-evident objective truths that are the basis of knowledge. For example, 2 + 2 = 4. It disappoints and astounds me that the so-called intellectual elite are so concerned about accepting self-evident truths that nearly 90 percent of the population understands."[25] |
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 09/27/2007 : 02:15:30 [Permalink]
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Thanks for that 'jack, Fil. Fascinating! Someone might want, along with a lot of other things, to tell the Gov of ol' Kentuck that the Declaration of Independence is a beautiful document of great historical importance, but one that has no force of law, and certainly doesn't trump the Constitution.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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pleco
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Posted - 09/27/2007 : 02:39:28 [Permalink]
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90%? Where did he get that stat?
Oh and 2+2=4? I'm sure the well-educated Fletcher knows that there is a proof to that statement and that you can't take it for granted. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/27/2007 : 03:13:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
90%? Where did he get that stat?
Oh and 2+2=4? I'm sure the well-educated Fletcher knows that there is a proof to that statement and that you can't take it for granted.
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Ol' Ern's a doozy, ain't he?
The 90% stat probably came from where a great percentage of creationist talking points originate: a loose spincter that somehow bypasses normal procedures and excretes through the laynarx. Medical science has yet to come up with an explanation for this.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/27/2007 : 04:07:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
90%? Where did he get that stat?
Oh and 2+2=4? I'm sure the well-educated Fletcher knows that there is a proof to that statement and that you can't take it for granted.
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Nice catch, that. Idiotic statements like Fletcher's somehow seem better, at least to the idiot saying them, when they include numbers. Even when these have to be extracted from one's rectum.
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Kentucky's Alchohol Control chief arrested for DUI
