tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post7426370717021478013..comments2024-03-12T21:13:06.850-05:00Comments on Legal Schnauzer: Missouri's GOP governor keeps his head stuck in the sand, discouraging federal help with low vaccination rates, as COVID crisis looms at overloaded hospitalslegalschnauzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-21427294743985649482021-07-10T16:36:06.079-05:002021-07-10T16:36:06.079-05:00Jerry:
I didn't politicize this story; it alre...Jerry:<br />I didn't politicize this story; it already was political. The post isn't about missteps politicians of both parties have made re covid. It's about missteps by one politician, who happens to be a Republican, in the state where I live. Plus, it's about low vaccination rates in clusters around the country, where Trump voters tend to be dominant. So, it was a political story from the get-go, and my approach was fairly narrow, based largely on the state where I live and Missouri's status as No. 1 in new covid cases.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-60021124679239951752021-07-10T14:14:12.899-05:002021-07-10T14:14:12.899-05:00New Yorkd Democrat Gov. sent hundred of elderly Co...New Yorkd Democrat Gov. sent hundred of elderly Covid patients to Senior homes to infect everyone else and to die. Why do you politicize this tricky disease from Wuhan China?<br />Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292941061948002178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-54647723777397694132021-07-09T13:26:23.826-05:002021-07-09T13:26:23.826-05:00BTW, Eric and Sheena Greitens now are divorced. Fr...BTW, Eric and Sheena Greitens now are divorced. From NPR:<br /><br />Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and Sheena Greitens announced Saturday they are ending their marriage through a joint statement that appeared on social media.<br /><br />“After much reflection, counsel, and prayer, we’ve made the amicable decision to end our marriage, and move forward as co-parents who love our children,” wrote the couple. “For their sake, we ask for privacy and will not be commenting further on this private family matter.” <br /><br />Greitens, a Republican, took office in 2017. He resigned about 18 months later after being enveloped by scandals regarding an extramarital affair and allegations of corruption. <br /><br />The former governor has stayed mostly out of the public eye since leaving office. Sheena Greitens is an assistant professor of political science and director of the Institute for Korean Studies at the University of Missouri. <br /><br /> legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-81879252626118346512021-07-09T13:21:56.191-05:002021-07-09T13:21:56.191-05:00Eric Greitens trashes politicians, other than hims...Eric Greitens trashes politicians, other than himself:<br /><br />In early 2016, candidate Eric Greitens wrote an email to supporters in which he expressed an extraordinarily dark view of his opponents and Missouri's political climate. From a report by Tony Messenger, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:<br /><br /> “There is, obviously, something wrong with politics, and there is something particularly, deeply, disturbingly, wrong here in Missouri,” [Greitens] wrote in the message to backers. “I’ve never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I’ve been running for Governor, I’ve been exposed to some of the worst people I’ve ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths. They are often deeply broken and disturbed people, who — like criminals who prey on the innocent — take their pleasure and make their living by victimizing honest people. They are drawn to politics as vultures flock to rotting meat — and they feed off the carcasses of vice.”<br /><br /> The future governor was just getting warmed up.<br /><br /> “The … most vicious punishment for the pathetic people who lower themselves like slime to slander, is that they have to live with themselves. They can hire people to praise them, slip cash to people who will tell ’em — like drug dealers pushing dope on kids — it’s ok, everybody does it. They can spend money to have other people tell them comforting lies. But I believe that, deep down, they know the truth about themselves, and they see it staring back at them in the rotted, bloated, self-serving soul in the mirror. ”<br /><br /> Greitens called them vultures. Liars. Sociopaths. Drug dealers. Criminals. Snakes. All in one email.<br /><br /> “They are corrupt in ways that I didn’t know people could be corrupt,” he wrote of those in his way.<br /><br /><br />Wow, that truly is a message of "hope." And we now know that had Greitens bothered to look in a mirror, he would have seen a snake smiling back at him.<br />legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-88506023483729832622021-07-09T13:19:05.806-05:002021-07-09T13:19:05.806-05:00More about Eric Greitens from our 1/18 post:
Afte...More about Eric Greitens from our 1/18 post:<br /><br />After acknowledging the affair, Eric and Sheena Greitens were stunningly self-centered in their public statements. Consider these words from Sheena Greitens:<br /><br /> “We have a loving marriage and an awesome family; anything beyond that is between us and God. I want the media and those who wish to peddle gossip to stay away from me and my children.”<br /><br /><br />It apparently has not occurred to Sheena Greitens that there is another family involved here -- that of Eric Greitens' mistress -- and that marriage broke up. Based on news reports, they have one or more children. So one term that could be applied to Eric Greitens is "home wrecker" -- although Mrs. Greitens only seems to be concerned with her own home.<br /><br />A word of advice for Mrs. Greitens: Don't marry a man with gubernatorial and presidential ambitions and then say you want the media to stay away from you and your children. It makes you look clueless and wildly out of touch.<br />legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-12316403203161298052021-07-09T13:15:16.198-05:002021-07-09T13:15:16.198-05:00In terma of name recognition, the early FOP leader...In terma of name recognition, the early FOP leader proably is Parson's predecessor -- the abominably corrupt Eric Greitens -- he of the sexual escapades with a married hair stylist.<br /><br />https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/01/arrogance-and-self-centeredness-are-at.htmllegalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-1924940348820172422021-07-09T13:12:15.707-05:002021-07-09T13:12:15.707-05:00U.S. Senate is the only higher office I can think ...U.S. Senate is the only higher office I can think of that might be a possibility, but Wikipedia reports that Parson has declined to enter. Of course, he always could change his mind.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_election_in_Missouri legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-54142336517533283952021-07-09T13:09:09.667-05:002021-07-09T13:09:09.667-05:00Parson must be planning a run for higher office. H...Parson must be planning a run for higher office. He's clearly playing to the Trumpies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-59544824875404713302021-07-09T13:05:38.576-05:002021-07-09T13:05:38.576-05:00I like your version better than mine.I like your version better than mine.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-36536608235490924802021-07-09T13:04:58.621-05:002021-07-09T13:04:58.621-05:00You are being kind by saying Gov. Parson has his h...You are being kind by saying Gov. Parson has his head in the sand. i'd say he has his head stuck up his ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com