Too delicious. Because it’s all about TEH NASTY SECKS — only if two homos are engaging in it. Unfortunately pious Chuck Rosenthal, who defended the Lone Star State’s sodomy laws may lose his job over decidedly family values-free content on his state-owned computer.
“I think that this Court having determined that there are certain kinds of conduct that it will accept and certain kinds of conduct it will not accept may draw the line at the bedroom door of the heterosexual married couple because of the interest that this Court has that this Nation has and certainly that the State of Texas has for the preservation of marriage, families and the procreation of children. “Even if you infer that various States acting through their legislative process have repealed sodomy laws, there is no protected right to engage in extrasexual - extramarital sexual relations, again, that can trace their roots to history or the traditions of this nation.”
– Texas District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal, in arguments to the Supreme Court in 2002’s ‘Lawrence v. Texas’ case.
The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary.Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal (R) is facing a state investigation into the emails which were discovered on his office computer.
If he is found in violation of “official misconduct'’ he could be removed from office. The office computer also contained evidence he had used it for political purposes.
The e-mails were found during discovery in a federal civil rights lawsuit. The plaintiffs in the case forced Rosenthal into a deposition where he was required to answer questions about the e-mails under oath.
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Seems ol’ Chuck plays the good ol’ boy as well and protects his ownFrom the AP via the Rocky Mountain News Rosenthal overrules a Grand Jury and dismisses charges of arson and evidence tampering brought against a judge and his wife.
Don’t know what happend there. The link was showing correctly in preview. I’ll try again and if it blows up again, I apologize to all.
Rocky Mountain News story on Chuck Rosenthal
…the interest that this Court has that this Nation has and certainly that the State of Texas has for the preservation of marriage, families and the procreation of children…
Let me go out on a limb here. I’m guessing those sexually explicit videos that he was jacking off to, had lots of nasty oral sex and lots of dirty, dirty fucking between unmarried people.
When are these right-wing assholes going to discover the internet? You’re lies and hypocrisy are out there for the world to see.
And I was just complaining that it had been too quiet on the right wing sex front lately.
There really needs to be a schadenfreude song.
There really needs to be a schadenfreude song.
Oh, there is.
(This is the Avenue Q version of the song with someone else’s animation — I can’t seem to find one with the actual cast.)
The official Schadenfreude Song is usually referred to as “Neener-neener-neener!”
Well, that’s what I miss for ignoring musical theater!
Well, that’s what I miss for ignoring musical theater!
Don’t worry, my stereotypically-gay-except-for-being-straight husband has it covered for ya. He heard about “Avenue Q” on NPR two years ago and has been listening to the soundtrack ever since. We even went downtown to see it when the touring company was here in Los Angeles.
I said I wanted a man who liked Sense and Sensibility but still liked to fuck women and believe it or not, I managed to find one.
And here I was just getting ready to drop my alas-contaminated nickname in favor of The Nelliest Straight Guy You’ve Ever Met, but it sounds as though Mr. Mnem has me beat.
Bwahahahahaha! So easy to be prudish between porn vids, I guess.
Heh. My husband and I like to talk about what musicals would make good movies. And he loves Sense and Sensibility.
Back when I was about 7, I decided Faramir and Eowyn seemed like the perfect couple, and I wanted a guy with that kind of sensitivity, dedication, and patience. And I got one.
The one who complains most is the one who does it the most.
And here I was just getting ready to drop my alas-contaminated nickname in favor of The Nelliest Straight Guy You’ve Ever Met, but it sounds as though Mr. Mnem has me beat.
Aw, geez, and now he’s going to be embarrassed if he reads this thread.
Well, if it’s nelly to come home every day at lunch to help your wife change the icepacks on her knee after she has knee surgery, I’ll make him a big ol’ t-shirt saying that.
I want to see those e-mail very badly.
“stereotypically-gay-except-for-being-straight husband” -I am SO telling Charlie that one when he gets back from his latest biz trip…many sympathies on the knee, Mnemosyne!
Re: TX sodomy laws. I remember when I first found out about this, I thought it was a joke- it HAD to be! How on Earth could what Charlie and I were doing to each other, albeit with my strap-on, be ANYONE’S business whatsoever, and how could it be any different if it were a couple of the same gender? I laughed my ass off; there was NO WAY that could really be a law… then reality and cynicism set in.
An activist friend was once telling me about a dinner party they were at with a member of the state judiciary. She was explaining to the judge about the sodomy law (always the good activist), and the judge’s spouse blurts out, “Well, it looks as like there’s a supreme court justice that’s been violating that one!”
The sexual material on Rosenthal’s office computer included videos of something called “sharking”, which is the act of men running up to women on the street and pulling their tops off, yanking their skirts down, etc. There was also a photo of a black man lying on the pavement, supposedly dead. The pavement around him is littered with slices of watermelon and a KFC bucket.
There’s a lot more here:
http://rackjite.com/archives/1082-Republican-Houston-DA-Chuck-Rosenthals-Racist-and-Sexist-email.html
I wonder how long before he pulls out this card: “Of course I had nasty, racist, sexist stuff on my hard-drive! I’m a DA and I’m supposed to know about the horrible things that people do! If I didn’t try to know about this those nasty progressives would call me sheltered and ignorant!”
This behavior is actually completely in line with his argument before the supreme court. States, according to him, have a perfect right to make laws against heterosexuals doing teh nasty outside marriage, they have merely chosen in their wisdom not to do so. (except where they have, and the laws have been struck down, but that’s just a hobgoblin of little minds)
Has ANY other German word achieved the crossover popularity of “schadenfreude”? LOL
Dreck?…which Chuck Rosenthal is a large pile of…
Schmuck?
Not to be pedantic,Paul,but the word “schmuck” as used in American slang is probably of Yiddish origin.The German “Schmuck”(pronounced “shmoock”) translates into English as ornament,jewellry,decoration etc.Not at all what you guys mean by schmuck,is it?
Has ANY other German word achieved the crossover popularity of “schadenfreude”? LOL
Englisch.
How about weltschmerz,though?
I still love MAJeff.
Here’s some nice German for you :Schweinepriester!
Translates literally as “(a)swine’s priest” or “pig-priest” and is used to describe someone like Rosenthal.Basically,it’s our equivalent of “douchebag”.
“Well, it looks as like there’s a supreme court justice that’s been violating that one!”
Reminds me of when the openly gay NYU law student, Eric Berndt, asked Scalia to his face if he sodomized his wife (it would have been preferable to ask him “when did you stop sodomizing your wife.”)
Acanthus–w…t….f….
How about weltschmerz,though?
ONe of my favorites.
When I was an undergrad, one of my friends was an American who grew up in Germany. Whenever people asked if he spoke German, he would simply respond, “Heut’ morgen hast du ein’ grosse Telle Hundscheise gegessen.” (Please forgive any spelling errors; I last studies German 16 years ago.)
Blitzkreig
“Blitzkreig”
Well sure, but now that the Cheney/Bush strategy of Shock ‘N Awe, Bitches! has been proven so successful in Iraq, nobody will ever use a word as wimpy and foreign as “blitzkrieg” again…
On shaming finger forward, three back.
Now he’s a wealth of embarrassment to his family, and his secretary’s family, and his community at large. Karma!
Nice! Bowers v. Harding redux. Although sounds like this guy is even worse than Mike Bowers. Bowers was a hypocrite and a sleazebag but the shit this guy was watching on his computer is creepier than an extramarital affair, to me at least. Although when Bowers and the woman he had been having the affair with had a nasty breakup, she announced to everyone that they had been happily breaking the very laws he had successfully defended in front of the supreme court. Oh, schadenfreude nostalgia!
MikeEss, wie TRAUEN Sie mich!! fragen!
seeker, I tried to translate that but I can’t quite get it. A little help?…
Ah, I just ran “How DARE you question me!” through babelfish. What it actually came out as in German? Unknown. I fear it might be something out of the famous Hungarian-English phrasebook. (Why, yes, my nipples do explode with delight, thank you for asking.)
Ah, I just ran “How DARE you question me!” through babelfish. What it actually came out as in German? Unknown. I fear it might be something out of the famous Hungarian-English phrasebook. (Why, yes, my nipples do explode with delight, thank you for asking.)
I had to use babelfish to translate about 1/3 of an unpublished paper written by a Swiss scholar (it was written in English and French). I could get it to make sense, but there will be no direct quotes