I hate to break it to you...

[kckc]

but Fox4 is reporting that Phill Kline was just appointed DA. I can't say I'm surprised but geez. I think my blood pressure just shot up. The man drives me insane.

[Mabus]

1. Glad I live in Douglas

Sorry JoCo. If y'all are lucky, his license has lapsed and he won't be able to take the job.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. If he is not eligible

will he be removed? At our county Dem meeting, they told us he is ineligible due to his lack of trial experience. They said there is a requirement for a minimum amount of trial experience and Phill doesn't have it.

So if that is true, what happens now? Will he be removed? Impeached?

[Mabus]

11. To my knowledge that isn't one of the qualifications

I think he has to have a valid license, practiced for a term of years (I think it is a minimum of five years) and live (or be registered) in the county where he is appointed.

I don't believe he has much litigation experience but I do believe he has practiced law for the minimum amount of time.

In other words, you guys are screwed for the next two years.

[Mabus]

2. Channel 5's website has the story.

http://kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5798060

Johnson County GOP Picks Kline As New District Attorney

Dec 11, 2006 09:21 PM

By JOHN HANNA
AP Political Writer

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) -- Republican activists picked Attorney General Phill Kline as Johnson County's new district attorney Monday night to replace the Democrat who ousted him from statewide office last month.

The tally among Republican precinct committee members who gathered at a Lenexa church was 316 for Kline to 291 for Steve Howe, who is an assistant district attorney in the state's most populous county.

In the attorney general's race last month, Kline received just 35 percent of the vote in Johnson County against five-term district attorney Paul Morrison, a former Republican who became a Democrat to challenge Kline for the statewide office.

More to :puke: at at the link

[Neecy]

3. How freakin' DARE they???

This man was bounced out of office overwhelmingly, but despite the voter's intent they handed this unqualified nut a plum job?

Talk about a kick in the teeth to JoCo voters! Disgusting! I'm furious! Is there any mechanism in our laws for a recall?

[MuseRider]

4. Sorry JoCo.

This is truly a shame. He lost but then he was appointed. Hmmmm. Another case of not caring about what the people, their bosses want. Disgusting.

[atommom]

5. Goddamnit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch!

On the plus side, the Repubs just bought themselves a buttload of trouble. He will be a disaster.

But still, they're appointing a partisan fool to a very important position. They are screwing over the voters. It's a move worthy of *. :mad: :nuke: :banghead:

[Jon8503]

6. Don't you think in the long run, this will be good for the dems in Johnson

County. He lost there about 65% to 20 some %. You have an intelligent population that is moderate and I think if he gets out of control, there could be a movement to oust him. Also, if he is there in 2 years, the dems will crush him. Unfortunately, that is 2 years of hearing him.

[atommom]

7. Yes, in the long run. I just got my hopes up...

I was hoping he might sit down and shut up for awhile! No such luck. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Oh my god, I am just sick

And all of you saying 'this is good news, the GOP just shot themselves in the foot' - no, that is NOT what this is about. This is about the ruination of one of the most livable counties in the entire country.

One of the nicest things about living here is the low crime rate. But no trial experience double L Phill just took care of that. The only people who should truly be happy about this insane decision are criminals and their attorneys.

If anyone cares to let the local GOP nutbags have it, here is their leader's email: [e-mail]

This is just making me ill. The value of my home just shot down. I thought we were making headway when we got rid of Connie Morris but now we just took 3 giant steps backwards.

[evlbstrd]

10. Now I know

where to indulge in my next great crime spree.

[Mabus]

12. only if Klein is the prosecutor

Which won't happen. He'll run the office more as a managing attorney than as a prosecutor. He's got enough sense not to try to argue any cases in front of a judge or against real opposing counsel.

I wonder how long before he starts going through files trying to find more abortion cases? I also wonder if he's going to continue his jihad against the clinic(s) in JoCo?

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. He supposedly already said he was going to look into clinics here in JoCo

[Mabus]

14. He better leave my records alone

I went to one of the clinics for an abortion. Doctor ordered it, otherwise I would have bled to death. I hated driving by those fucking protesters. Not the kind of thing you want to face early in the morning when you're in a lot of pain and mental anguish already.

[evlbstrd]

15. Well, if he wants to catch me,

he won't find anything there.

[Mabus]

16. Are you running a clinic in the backyard?

Or is this something to do with your salamander arms?

[evlbstrd]

17. Not in the backyard.

But you haven't seen my basement. You think arms just grow back by themselves?

[Mabus]

18. They don't?!?

Damn. Mine was hurting today so I cut it off. So, am I screwed or what?

[evlbstrd]

20. Not if you get here as soon as possible.

I'll start turning the compost to generate the steam. The rest of the process is a secret.
Do you and the Admiral do patent law?

[Mabus]

21. The Admiral does

I help, most of the time anyway. Sometimes I just get in the way.

How about matching the color?

[evlbstrd]

23. If it's that important to you.

We'll have to wait for tomorrow when the hardware store opens. I'm low on toxic solvents.

[Mabus]

24. Did you just call me a toxic solvent?

'cuz your crickets seem to think I'm soylent green.

[evlbstrd]

25. The solvents are for color and texture.

They may also repel the crickets. I'd like to experiment with that.
Without them, you'd have a more natural, gangrenish tinge. The fingernails will look really cool at night.

[Mabus]

29. Will it glow in the dark?

Because that would make it a lot easier to find the lock when I get home after dark.

on edit: it is hard typing with one hand. But, you already know that. :rofl:

[evlbstrd]

30. Let me put it this way.

You will no longer be able to go covvert.
And what that a shot? Or were you referring to the regeneration of limbs?

[Mabus]

33. My knees creak too much for me to be covert

I haven't been able to sneak up on anyone since I was a kid and my knees started creaking.

Take that second remark any way you want. :rofl:

[evlbstrd]

34. I'm gonna smack you.

With my mouth stick. And it's still damp.

[Mabus]

37. LOL

but gross.

I just hope you know where that stick has been. I know there's a lot of birds around your place.

[evlbstrd]

39. I gotta go to work some time.

And I have four other people, two dogs and a cat in this house. Five of them don't have jobs. And then there are the mutant crickets.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Now I know where that cricket on steroids came from

evlbstrd is cloning them in his basement!!

[Mabus]

22. And they're escaping through the bathroom vent

RUN! :yoiks:

[evlbstrd]

27. I don't have any vents.

They must have developed opposable thumbs! EGADS!

[Mabus]

28. Or I disturbed it while it was trying to have some private time

:blush:

[evlbstrd]

31. Yeah, you don't want to do that.

They keep me up all night with their irritated chirping. Nothing worse than a frustrated mutant cricket.

[Mabus]

32. Try owning a shih tzu

the one we've got snores loud enough to shake the house. My brother and his girlfriend stay with us sometimes. For the first couple of years she'd come downstairs in the morning, look at me like I was the most pathetic thing she'd ever seen and ask me "did you sleep okay?" I figured I looked like shit or something in the morning. One day she came down and asked her usual question. As I was answering her her eyes got real big. I looked behind me and there was the Admiral. She looked shocked. Then she asked me "who's snoring?" I told her it was the dog. Apparently, she had been feeling sorry for me because she was convinced I should have trouble sleeping through all that snoring. She thought it was the Admiral and was geniunely surprised it was the ten pound dog.

The snoring was really loud last week. The poor dog had a cold. He sneezed a lot and his snoring got LOUD! I could hear him sawing logs when I was out in the backyard.

[evlbstrd]

35. I don't need one.

You've met Gup, evlspwn's pug. She's geting bigger. Since evlspwn is working and going to school, Gup has decided I'm her daddy. She has to be right next to me at all times and likes to sleep on her back, and man, can she snore. She woke my brother up, and he sounds like a cheap Suzuki motorcycle when he snores.
On the other hand, I don't need an alarm clock any more. She jumps up and down on my face bright and early every morning.

[Mabus]

36. What does Bear do?

Poor thing, he probably feels left out.

[evlbstrd]

38. Bear is her grandma.

She plays with her, and I make sure to give my old girl her attention. Despite her exploded ass.
She's nearly deaf and her eyes are getting milky. Gup gets on the bed, but Bear seems to understand it. She does sigh a lot, though.

[Mabus]

40. Same here with my lhasa, except for the playing part

She's resigned to life with an overly exuberant Shepherd and so she sighs a lot more these days. She also refuses to sleep with us most nights. She climbed into bed and made herself comfortable on one of the pillows a few days ago but most of the time she acts like we don't exist. I think she was hoping the Shepherd would disappear by now. To that end, she still won't play with the Shepherd. She fucks with the Shepherd a lot to make up for it. She goes in and eats the Shepherd's food. She's gotten sick more than once doing that.

Poor Bear. At least she's understanding and hasn't tried to kill Gup (like the lhasa has tried to kill the Shepherd).

[evlbstrd]

41. But Boogerhead, the cat, hates her.

And Gup gets her ass kicked every time. Bear is Boogerhead's mom. She raised him from a kitten and defends him from Gup. It's fun to watch all three of them get into it.

[evlbstrd]

26. Hey!

It wasn't on purpose.